I have been mulling over a couple of things for awhile now in regards to this life and heaven as well as this life and my relationship with Jesus.

One is this idea that, although, this life, with its cares and concerns, seems the more real of the two, heaven and the spiritual world are the actual real part of our existence. It is so easy to get caught up in what is happening here and to feel like it is what matters and what needs to be done. That it should be the focus of my time, energy and emotion. BUT, nothing in the Bible backs that perspective up. Instead the Bible warns to be vigilant, not for people around you with differing view points or bosses and jobs with deadlines or even children with schedule and personal demands, but in watching for, and standing against, and fleeing from, Satan, a spiritual being.

Then the Bible tells us, not to create the perfect to do list and the perfectly balanced work and home life, but to use every experience to move closer to God and to live every moment to bring Him alone Glory and Honor. So, when the cares and concerns of this world are pressing in, and EVEN when they are pressing in because they are in opposition to Biblical and Godly choices and living, I can stand free to look at it from a different perspective. Those cares and the mounting opposition to Godliness and heavenly simplicity MUST pale in strength and importance when I look at them from a Spiritual World Perspective. This is because in the Spiritual World, although there are real and fierce battles still being waged and fought, the war is over and victory has been determined and set! AND Jesus WON, and I am humbled and comforted that He said, I can win too, if I want to, by choosing to follow Him.

All the difficulties of this world will still be here. I do still have to face people with differing opinions, I do still have work loads and deadlines, my children are still human angels and do have needs and demands that I must put before my own. BUT those things aren’t the most important. If one world is a hologram and one a reality, I can find rest in peace that this world is the hologram. It just looks like life, real life is happening in the spiritual realm. And, I will get to “see it in full” one day when Christ returns or I die and so get to escape this hologram and walk in the fullness of life. Until then, God does not leave me with only the longing for that time. But with glorious and generous glimpses of that reality, in the hugs and faces of the ones I love, in joyous reunions, in deep moments of fellowship with Him, in cards from family and friends and even sometimes in “likes” for a post, I get to “see as in a glass darkly” the glorious real life. The best is yet to come, but praise God for glimpses and tastes in the meantime!