Pretend You’re Looking Through A View-Master
Do you know what a View-Master is?
When I was a little kid it was a neat toy. You stuck the disks in the binocular looking toy and you could look at the pictures. Then you could buy and rotate out the disks. It was a great marketing idea back in its day.
So let’s pretend to take the View-Master and insert a disk in it. You click the lever down and it goes back up and you see a picture of the earth. You click again and it’s a pretty view of a seascape. Continuing on you see a plush rainforest all green. Very scenic and pretty place is the earth.
Let’s change the disk out now and take a look. The new disk has a picture of a person lying on the ground after a car wreck. You hit the lever and it’s of a soldier who’s died on the battle field because of a land mine. The photo after that is of scientist trying to create a biochemical hazard that has no other purpose but to kill people with disease. You keep clicking it seeing pictures of the Holocaust and people starved to death. Others reveal slave camps where detestable things happen.
Most of would want to take out the second disk and burn it, because that doesn’t bring the vision of what we want to see. We want to see the heaven were trying to make on this earth. Burn it all you want, but the reality is that man is a fallen, sinful, selfish, being.
Romans 3:12 – 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
You see right now man’s biggest goal is to try and make everyone else respect each other. Try to make this world come together and all get along to create a big happy place, create a one world government. The problem is the ones at the top who are trying to make others do this; don’t even want to live under the same guidelines. Why? Because they are selfish people.
There isn’t a heaven on earth. Even in all our riches there is stress like you can’t believe. In many cases you have one person stabbing the back of another to get where they need to go. Others swindling others to get ahead or stealing what they can. This is what is going on is civilized countries. In uncivilized it’s atrocious.
What does God say about the subject?
1 John 2:15 – 15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
Romans 12:2 – 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Our citizenship is in Heaven. We are not supposed to be putting it all on the line to make our lives for this world the best in history. The world hated Jesus and if you’re living for Him first it will probably hate you also.
John 15:18 – 18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
Take the View-Master again. Plop in a disk of Heaven. What does it look like?
1 Corinthians 2:9 – 9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
We can’t even fathom in our humans minds of how great Heaven is? We are however, warned constantly throughout the New Testament especially, that we are to seek it and not ourselves or the world.
Have faith. It will be greater than any worldly day of your life. Seek the Lord first, not this world.