Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

by John Burke

I told you by the life I lived. I told you by the death I died. And, if you keep your eyes on Me, you will see more.

C. S. Lewis once said, “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. . . . Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”

Maybe the reason we never feel fully satisfied in this life is because we were created for the life to come.

When we base our worth or identity on what we do or what was done to us, we will struggle with fear of failure, feel the need to prove ourselves, or manipulate others who get in the way of our success. We will become self-consumed. That’s because God never created us to get our identity from what we do or what others did to us, but from who we are to God.

How much have you loved with your life? Have you loved others as I am loving you? Totally? Unconditionally?

When we suffer, God suffers with us. “In all their suffering he also suffered, and he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them” (Isaiah 63:9 NLT).