So I am currently reading “The Slumber of Christianity” by Ted Dekker. It is really good, and has made me ask myself “Am I obsessed about heaven?” I want to ask you the same thing. Are you obsessed about heaven? Really think about it. In the book Ted brings up the point about all the Disciples of Jesus and followers and their hope and obsessivness for heaven. They yearned for it. It was their goal. I wish it would be mine. In the book Ted also gives a metaphor or alalgy. It goes something like this.
Image your in a race, you are running full out and want to win. You start and push yourself to the max, with that finish line as the goal. During the race you take breaks to get drinks at stops along the way. Then you get back on the race, but each time you lose a little hope for that goal. Soon you are running the race and have become more obsessed with the cups of water you get along the way than the goal, the finish line at the end.

This is how we have come to live. We become Christians and can’t wait to get to heaven. We view it as the greatest and our goal. But slowly over time we become more focused on the cups of water than the goal heaven. We start to focus on the rewards of this world, not the next and view that as the best. We don’t look forward to heaven, just our next cup of water. For example a New Car, House, Computer, Video Game, A on a test etc. Yet none of these produce the happiness we want. So we head for the next. This is our problem. I pray for you and for myself that we will wake up. That we will obsess over heaven.

“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14