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So, let me ask you a question today: “If Heaven is as wonderful as it is described in scripture, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for those who love Him.” why do you suppose God leaves us here on earth AFTER we are saved?” Is it punishment for our bad behavior? No, certainly not! Our sins are wiped out and forgotten by God when we accept Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for our sins and in our place. “Well then, is it to explore all the pleasures, treasures, and stuff of earth?” Hardly the best on earth will ever compare to the least of heaven. What then? Why are we here?

Are we to just try really hard to resist and avoid sin here until we die, or Jesus comes back and then collapse into heaven, exhausted from our efforts? No, that’s ridiculous; there has to be more than that.

Of course, there is more: “For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”

We are here to represent Jesus in and through our everyday lives as reconcilers and ambassadors—every one of us. There is no such thing as a “part-time” Christian. Jesus didn’t die for us to live for Him on Sunday morning and Wednesday night. He died so God’s wayward children can be reconciled to the Father. (John 3:16) He went back to heaven and sent His Spirit to live in us, empower us, and through our lives, to live His life through us to others, and to do the “good works that He prepared for us to walk in beforehand” as reconcilers.

This is real “big-picture” stuff. What are your thoughts? What is God speaking to your heart today?