The Difference Between Just Escaping Hell and Inheriting Heaven

Dan Ledford says:

"The difference between escaping Hell and inheriting Heaven is like the difference between escaping Cancer and inheriting Super Powers. Which one is more motivating?

Readers Digest tells me that eating Spinach means fighting off prostate cancer; but Popeye told me that eating Spinach means that I can pick up a house with one hand. I’m with Popeye.

Popeye didn’t get cancer (and he even smoked) and people going to Heaven don’t go to Hell; but inheriting Heaven is a lot more exciting that just avoiding Hell.

We have undersold Heaven. The picture of souls with halos playing harps on clouds is lame and wrong. Who wants that?

Instead, replace the halo on the bodiless soul with a crown atop your perfect, resurrected body. Replace the harp and cloud with sinless power and authority to rule over creation. Replace an eternity of boredom with an eternity of unspeakable joy and glorious riches.

This isn’t about escaping Hell. This is about the grand inheritance of the new Heavens and new Earth as co-heirs with Christ – standing in the presence of the Almighty God Himself."

Amen.

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