Is heaven’s main attraction its streets of purest gold?
Do you want to see it, see about what you’ve been told?
Do gates of pearl attract you – do they demand your thought?
Do heaven’s “beauties” call you, more than they really ought?
Does heaven beckon you more because of Mom or Dad?
You think seeing them again will make your heart so glad,
Or (sorry that you suffered) you have a child up there,
You’re attracted to heaven because of your child, fair.
Is heaven, the real heaven, the place you want to be?
Or just an alternative from where you wish to flee?
(No one in his right mind, desires to go down below,
Given a third choice, you’d choose it, you honestly know.)
Many would like a heaven, absent Almighty God.
They’ve never really loved Him, never sought His kind nod,
As one might like the mansion on yonder hilly dome,
Enjoy it to the full – if the owner was not home.
Like his mansion? Oh, yes. Like the owner? Well – – – not much.
He seems too demanding about debt, and dirt, and such.
And like-wise some would take heaven – if it had no God.
They think they’d like His mansion, but find Him cold and odd.
They want a carnal heaven, where they would have no pain.
They’d like a safe city, without fear of being slain.
They want to miss hot hell, though they’ve sown their share of oats,
They grasp for what God has, but they never “shared their coats.”
If your view of heaven involves only a gold street,
Do you just want to go for the loved one you would meet?
Stop! Your wicked view of heaven needs to change right now!
God is King there, all who enter will lovingly bow.
He’s willing to share, share His mansion with one and all
Who reciprocate His love, upon Him daily call.
The glimpses of heaven are befitting our great King
Up there “Holy, Holy” is cried, up there angels sing.
Gold, pearl are but sidelights to the Presence we will see.
Heaven is a place of worship – for eternity. – eab, 3/26/07
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