Anyone can go to heaven if they want to. Jesus taught, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16 NASB).
When you breathe your last breath on Earth, you will breathe your first breath in heaven. Your first breath in heaven will be beyond anything you ever experienced on Earth. Heaven is not just a little better than Earth; it is a realm that is so different you can barely imagine it.
Nothing from the world can fully satisfy you, and everything from heaven is more than enough. “We thank God for the hope that is being kept for you in heaven…” (Colossians 1:5 NLV).
Your first breath in heaven will fill your new lungs with an atmosphere that is perfectly pure and void of anything evil. When you breathe eternity, eternity breathes into you. Even the air in heaven will be holy, and even the heavenly air will contain the presence of God.
Whatever doesn’t belong in heaven doesn’t belong in you. “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things” (Colossians 3:1-2 NIV).
Your first breath in heaven will be like a rushing wind of the Holy Spirit going inside you. There will be a fullness of the Holy Spirit, the Ruach [Spirit] Hakodesh [Holy], that was never completely possible here on Earth. You’ll be lucky if you can remain standing on your first breath.
Nobody is filled by a fraction of the Holy Spirit, but the fullness of God. “Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. …be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:17-18 NKJV).
You can only fear the last breath on Earth if you don’t have the absolute assurance you will immediately afterward breathe your first breath in heaven. If you don’t have this assurance, get it now, either by getting right with God or letting God help you to have a higher faith.
So long as you can prove a thing, your faith is not required. “What is faith? It is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead” (Hebrews 11:1 TLB).
Your first breath in heaven will be the first moment you realize the full majesty of God. We have inklings of His glory, and we have tasted His goodness, but it will only be in heaven where we are ready to see Him in all His wondrous glory.
We have a God who cannot be contained by the religions of man. “But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him?…” (2 Chronicles 2:6 NKJV).
Your first breath in heaven will wash away the pain and the suffering you may have had to endure across many years. It will be in that first breath that you will realize just how much heaven was worth waiting for. You may be suffering now, but it will not last forever.
You can’t see the value in suffering, focusing on only the costs and not the return. “These troubles and sufferings of ours are, after all, quite small and won’t last very long. Yet this short time of distress will result in God’s richest blessing upon us forever and ever! So we do not look at what we can see right now, the troubles all around us, but we look forward to the joys in heaven which we have not yet seen. The troubles will soon be over, but the joys to come will last forever” (2 Corinthians 4:17-18 TLB).
We will cry when we get to heaven as it will be there we will find out who didn’t make it. God gave everyone a choice, but only a few will make the right choice. We will cry for those we lost, but God will wipe away even those tears. Live today, hoping fewer will be lost when you get to heaven later.
There are no graveyards in heaven. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will no longer be any death; and there will no longer be any mourning, crying or pain; because the old order has passed away” (Revelation 21:4 CJB).
Your first breath in heaven will be inhaling life, and I am most confident your first sound will be praising the Lord for all He has done for you. None of us deserve to go to heaven, and everyone who will be there can only stand on the righteousness of their Lord Jesus Christ.
You can’t find anyone in heaven who deserves to be there but Christ alone. “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood…” (Romans 3:23-25 NLT).
Your last breath on Earth is what makes your first breath in heaven possible. Don’t be afraid, timid soul, for the Lord is always with you. There is no need to fear because the Lord Himself has promised us we will live with Him into eternity.
Don’t worry about your future because God is already there. “You, Lord, are all I have, and you give me all I need; my future is in your hands” (Psalm 16:5 GNT).
Blessings to you,
Paul Balius
Ho!! The holy, happy highlands of heaven hereafter!
Ours shall be endlessly in heaven the perfect and complete ethereal enjoyment of knowing in royally ravishing reality our Forever First Love, our All Magnificent Obsession, even as lovingly lavish and intensely intimate as we are kindly and kingly known by Him. Forever heaven’s Darling will be the lowly but lofty Lamb of love and Lord of liberty upon the transcendent throne of triumph over all history and all creation, infinitely better, beneficent, beautiful, beheld, and bestowed than the grand sum of all creation that is, and was, and ever shall be.
I Corinthians 2:9-13 AMP
9 but just as it is written [in Scripture],
“Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”
10 For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding]. 11 For what person knows the thoughts and motives of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So also no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the [Holy] Spirit who is from God, so that we may know and understand the [wonderful] things freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words [for those being guided by the Holy Spirit].
Romans 8:18 AMP
For I consider [from the standpoint of faith] that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us!
I am sad to admit that I think of heaven far too little and with too small of a vision for all that heaven will be. I look at this earth and have so much sadness when I see all the troubles going on in the lives of people around the world. But there is a future hope which is our present promise that someday all things will be made new. Blessings to you Brother!
Me, too, brother. Our awakening in heaven may actually transpire sooner than later! Love extravagant, eternal to and for you, Paul, from heaven’s Kinsman King of kindliness and Herald of holy happiness, and myself . . .❤️
Wow what a beautiful reflection on heaven and the fullness of His presence in us, around us and the amazing privilege of being in His indescribable presence forever.
Thank you so much, it leaves a lot to think about and be expectant of that amazing moment when we meet Him in the fullness of His glory!
If you have not already, check out the book called Heaven by Randy Alcorn. It stirred up in many years ago that wide-eyed wonder for all that lies ahead.