A Spirit Playing A Harp?
Satan always has a way of making an impression on the church.
First of all, if being a spirit and playing a harp for an eternal church service was how Heaven was going to be, you would be ecstatic. That’s how your new self would respond to your new destiny.
However, does that really make a lot of sense?
The devil has used this to try and persuade people that the world has got so much more interesting and better things to offer than boring old Heaven. He has successfully done a pretty good job, because almost everyone I see isn’t chasing after Heaven but trying to get in a heaven on earth.
A spirit, playing harp, on a cloud? Which part of this matches up?
God made a creation and creatures on a perfect and beautiful earth. He then made man and his partner so they could help run this institution. What does man and his wife do? They sin and turn it over to Satan. No it’s cursed.
Man however, was made perfect and he had a body. They were made for relationship with each other, with the animals, and with the Lord. They had tasks to do. They weren’t floating ghosts that had nothing to do but sit around.
Let’s take a look at Jesus after he resurrected.
Luke 24: – 36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.”
40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, “Have you any food here?” 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence. NKJV
He had flesh and bone. He ate fish and honeycomb. He intermingled back amongst His disciples.
We were created the way we were supposed to be created. The fall cursed the current way we think and the reason we start dying from the time we’re born.
Jesus died and paid the penalty we were doomed to have had to face. Now all we have to do is get back to making Him Lord just like it was before the fall in the garden. Time to make Him Lord again and receive that resurrected body that happens at the rapture.
What purpose would a ghost have for a mansion?
John 14:2-4 – 2 In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”
Don’t let the devil deceive you. Heaven is perfection. Perfection on how you will view it. How you will feel about being there. It will be all that you could hope for, because the Lord made us and knows exactly what we like even more than we do.
Serve Him every day. He’s worthy!