Singing about Going to Heaven

Tomorrow is Senior Adult Sunday at KP. Our seniors will be leading us in worship and Pastor Don Godbey from Dayton Crossroads will be preaching the message. Please come and join us. The senior choir has been practicing this past couple Saturdays and sound really good.

As I am writing this right now, the senior choir is practicing. They are singing a lot of hymns and I am amazed at how many of them speak of the rapture and heaven. These songs for the most part were written in the 20th century. I wonder why today we believers don't sing and talk more about the coming of Jesus to "catch up" (rapture) his saints? We all know that Christ's coming is closer, so why don't we hear more preaching and singing about the rapture?

I really think the answer is simple. We (Christians), get too tangled up with the cares of the world. We are so busy living that we take very little time to think or talk about life after death. Some might say, well people don't like to talk or think about death or life after death. But that shouldn't be for us believers, especially if we believe what God's Word says about our future and eternal home. Eternal life should be something we look forward to. Immorality, being reunited with saved friends and family, and experiencing all God has prepared for us should be something that we are anxious to experience...I really believe that. I know the idea of suffering and even death itself can be scary. But even that, Christ's resurrection power has taken the stinger out and has given us victory over.

Finally, I also believe it is the strategy of the enemy himself to keep us from thinking and singing about eternal life. He wants us to live for "the now." He wants us to live, act, and think as if heaven and seeing Jesus is kind of a fairy tale...that if it happens great but what really counts is this life. Paul under the power of the Spirit wrote in Colossians 3:1-4, "Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory. " NASU

Lets have a great day of worship tomorrow!

-Pastor