The Bible says that we will cast our crowns at Jesus feet when we get to Heaven.
This act will be done out of gratitude for what He has done for us during our lives.
But here’s a question for you:
“What if our crowns are not made of jewels but instead
Made of our scars we accumulated here on earth?”
What if the crowns are our own Crown-of-Thorns that showed
How we overcame by the Blood of the Lamb
(Our salvation thru Jesus)
And the Word of our Testimony
(What we overcame with the help of Jesus?)
The Bible says that our thoughts are not His thoughts,
And our ways are not His ways,
But His thoughts and ways are higher than ours. Isaiah 58:8-9
~In other words, what we think is important is not what He thinks is important.
We deem cars and houses important and
He thinks human hearts and souls are important.
So the trials and tribulations we go thru here on earth
Are merely precious jewels of testimonies of how He helped us,
And are viewed thru completely
Different lenses in two different places.
In this life scars caused by trials are viewed with disdain,
But in the Heavenly Realm our scars are viewed as
Breathtakingly beautiful.
The difference is the lens.
The difference is the vantage point.
If we can see HOW God sees, then we would have perfect peace in our heart.
(Perfect Peace is the Peace-that-passes-understanding,
NOT the false peace that we get from the world.)
If we view hardships as God punishing us
And not loving us,
And if we view the rich people around us as
God loving them and blessing them because of their wealth
Then we will forever be forlorn,
We will forever feel abandoned
By our Heavenly Father.
And, we will view God as bad, not as loving.
What is Joy?
What is Peace?
Simple.
Joy and Peace equate to choosing the path of God
And trusting Him,
Even when it doesn’t make sense.
Why?
Because God is Good.
God is Good.
Never forget that everyone here on earth is walking towards some destination. Everyone.
No exceptions.
All of us are walking towards our Forever Home.
Our forever home is not earth,
If it was then we could talk to Abraham Lincoln
And all the others who lived before.
But we can’t, cause their dead.
They walked their journey here on earth,
Once-upon-a-time.
They each took their last breath here on earth
And took their next breath Over There,
In their Forever Home.
We each have had a choice to choose as we stood at the crossroads of life.
Just like they did.
The beauty of us,
The ones who are still alive,
Is we can still choose between two roads.
Our predecessors, who have died,
Can no longer choose…
Some sojourners, as they were walking, stepped off of the hard path
And began skating on the easier path of pleasure here on earth.
Nothing is wrong with pleasure,
But there are two types of pleasure, good and bad,
Just like there are two types of eternal homes, good and bad.
God refuses to be our puppet master, and allows us free-will to choose.
(Freedom-To-Choose.)
The choice is ours.
If we choose to go the more difficult way of the more narrow path of God,
Then odds are good, we will suffer scars, here on earth.
But those scars will turn into crowns in Heaven.
However, if we choose to reject God and go for the easier route here on earth,
Our reward will not be a Crown-of-Joy but instead
A Chain-of-Regret.
And both rewards are results of choices.
And both rewards are Forever.
The Bible says, ‘Choose you this day whom you will serve.’
Bob Dillon put it this way, “You gotta serve somebody”…
If you are reading this there is Tremendous Good News.
~It’s not too late for you.
Each day is a crossroad of decision.
As the new year begins and yesterday is but
A memory-vapor in-the-mind;
You can choose your Forever-Home.
You, like Abraham Lincoln,
(And the rest of the people who have gone before us,)
Will definitely live Somewhere
After your time here on earth is gone.
But it’s a choice, that you make today,
And if you are still alive tomorrow,
You will get the Beautiful Gift of another
Day-of-Choices.
The choice may bring scars with it.
But if you view your scars thru the lens of Eternity,
Than the scar might turn into a crown and
Bring you an Everlasting Joy.
(Smile)
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