If this is our best life now why would we want to go to Heaven? It would be unnecessary! Why would we want to leave this life of war, famines, earthquakes, murder, abortion, rape, incest, sexual abuse, pestilences, disease, death, terrorism, political upheaval. divorce and all the rest of our problems? Jesus warned us not to fall in love with this world! You can see why! The new heaven and the new earth will no longer be separate from each other! Why? No sin! No border walls! The old world is passed away! No threat of nuclear destruction in the new earth! There will no more be a sea with storms interrupting our lives where with no distractions we have perfect communion with God! In the new Jerusalem the church is in a perfect state of communion! The church is triumphant! Our blessedness does not depend on our own works but is kept and released to us by our Christ! No more sin, afflictions, tears and sorrows! Death is defeated! No more persecution of the Saints! The best earth now pales to the new heaven and the new earth! The River of Life flows with the refreshing water that quenches all thirst! Living water! No more floods and polluted water! No more air pollution! No global warming! No more politicians! Praise God! No more drug addiction! No more taxes, funerals, grave diggers or crematories! No illegal immigrants! No more persecution of Christ and his followers! The wheat and the chaff are separated forever! The second death has no power over us as we are redeemed by his blood! The blood shed at Calvary! For you and for me! Our payday is not very far off! So close I do not want to fall in love with this world but to Christ! One day your health will expire! Your effort to sustain yourself will end! Then who have you trusted with your eternity? Yourself who has just died? Are you going to raise yourself from the dead? Christ said that he is able to do exceedingly above all that we could ever ask or imagine! If we trust God in the here and now he will lead us in paths of righteousness and to a place he has prepared for us! Your work is never finished here on earth but the work of Christ on your Cross is complete and eternal and transcends time and matter! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com