Desire to Be With the Lord “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die”

Desire to Be With the Lord

“Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die”

“Everybody wants to go to heaven”

The question is, Why?

Why does everybody want to go to heaven?

There are a lot of reasons

Don’t want to go to hell

Want to walk the streets of gold

Want to be reunited with family and friends

I like all those reasons but the greatest reason should be

I desire to be with the Lord

Galatians 2:20

“Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die”

You have probably heard the saying…

“Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die”

Death is the final stop to this life.

Nobody wants to die.

There is a fight for life that is in all of us.

 Most of us do not want to think about dying.

Especially the way we will die.

   

Death is unpleasant and unwelcome.

I think God made it that way.

God is the Author of Life and He

put within us a strong will to live.

When the fear of death comes, our

emotions may be overwhelmed.

But God gave us the ability to

logically rationalize those emotions…

Where fear turns into adrenaline

and we fight or run.

One of the most popular hopes

for Christians is the return of Christ.

To be taken up to meet

God without tasting death.

Death is not something we want

to focus on, but for the believer…

Death is new birth and that is

something to get excited about.

You see…

“Everybody wants to go to heaven”

The question is Why?

Why does everybody want to go to heaven?

There are a lot of reasons…

Don’t want to go to hell.

Want to walk the streets of gold.

Want to be reunited with family and friends.

I like all those reasons but

the greatest reason should be…

I desire to be with the Lord.

I know that sounds too simple

and that is why I am writing this.

If we really want to go to heaven

we should be practicing heaven now.

What if we took time every day and made

that time an appointment with Christ where

we had on our door “do not disturb”.

  

What if we got up every morning with the

realization God was with us where ever we went.

What if your main friend on

Facebook and Twitter was Jesus.

What if you took Jesus with you

when you meet your friends and family.

What would these “What ifs” look like?

I wish I could be more creative

in my writing, but the point is this…

Is my desire to be with Christ?

Is my desires now a reflection of my eternal desire?

Nobody wants to die and the greater

the distance between you and God the

greater your desire not to die is.

 I desire to be with the Lord as

much as He desires to be with me.

He gave His life so I might have heaven.

The greatest thing of death for the

believer is it brings us closer to God.

Scripture Reading

Galatians 2:20-21 NIV

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Psalm 116:15 NIV

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD

is the death of his saints.