God, Heaven, and Prayer
Weeeell, he answered that prayer! He says, ok, you want a servants heart, lets get started. Kinda makes me think of something like a hairdresser. I go in and ask for a haircut, and then when he starts whacking away at the hair I start freaking out and saying "HEY, Wait a minute! I didn't want this!!" Of course, in the end, the haircut is exactly what I wanted, but during the process I'm sitting there freaking out. I'm such an idiot.
On the way to be dropped off to go to camp, Mama started talking about how I was going to be in charge of the house a lot this year, since Caiti and Mama are both working at preschool. I'm telling you, I seriously started flipping out when she started talking about it. Just inside, I didn't say anything to her, but I was like, "AH! God, no..this is so not cool, this is not fair! This is MY sr year of high school HOW AM I GONNA DO IT?!"
haha. I can just see God sitting in heaven laughing at me. Either laughing or shaking his head. I'm sure he must get a kick out if it sometimes, though, when we pray for something and he gives us a very good answer, and we just go bonkers.
So, we get to camp, and I forget all about it, but the whole week(for me) was centered around selflessness and being a servant to others. *cough*
Then I got home and was reminded of my situation. I was resigned, but I was very scared. I frantically expressed my fear in about 2 minutes, and after that I was all good. Now It's like....like a game. I'm standing in position, ready to jump at every ball that comes my way, psyched about the game and the challenge it poses, and ready to win!! Then last night I realized that this is an answer to my prayer for a servant's heart. *laugh* I'm so silly.
Sunday night our children's pastor preached on heaven. (he's the pastor's son.) As I've gotten older, I've lost many of the views I had on heaven as a child. I feel for all the poor deluded children like myself, who envision heaven as a bright, translucent city where everyone floats around five inches above the ground in robes too long to see our feet. *hehe* I read Narnia, and loved C.S. Lewis's picture of heaven. The REAL Narnia. Well, that's pretty much what Pastor Nolan said heaven would be. Just like earth, but no sin!! Who has been taught that there will be no time in heaven, and no night? I was. Think again though, there will be time in heaven! And night! I have references, but I'm too lazy to go find them right now. If you want them, comment and I'll get them for you. Just imagine the joy and laughter there will be in heaven. I am convinced that heaven will be the most amazing place anyone could ever imagine!! Just think - we get to worship God in all purity; without sin to mar our relationship with him! Perfect fellowship with God!!! We get to spend time with him, laugh with him, sing with him, with other believers. Anyone who thinks God hasn't got a sense of humor needs to get to know God better. Plus, why do you think we enjoy humor so much? God created it for us to enjoy. God created us to enjoy life and thus glorify him. In everything we do, we glorify God - as long as it isn't tainted by sin. And in heaven there will be NO SIN and we will glorify God in everything we do!!! Astounding.
Prayer is such a magical way of communication. Like telepathy sort of. (A side thought here - everything that is sinful is a distortion of something God created for us to glorify him with. I never really thought of that before.) God always knows what we are thinking, and he can put into our minds things that he wants us to know. The power of prayer is unbelievable! At camp I was in a group called the Plank Setters, which consisted of a girl and a guy cabin(brother and sister cabins) and two counselors. I have committed to pray for everyone in this group as specifically as I can for ...as long as I can. In asking others what can I pray for them, they are more than willing to ask me the same thing, and that gets so many people praying for each other! It encourages me so much to know that someone I don't know very well will pray specifically for me, because we are brothers and sisters in Christ. Well, I've been thinking about what could happen if many of us in the group will continue to pray for each other for years. If we do that, just imagine the change in our lives, and the change in the world! There are 16 of us, and 16 young people who are completely devoted to Christ could TOTALLY change the world!! Isn't that exciting?!
-Laura
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