HERE IS HOW HEAVEN CAN BEGIN TO LOOK LIKE RIGHT HERE!

Psa 15:1  A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? 

The life of a Christian is a separate life. It is a tabernacle life. Peter called it ‘a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people’ life (1Pe 2:9),

‘that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light’. It is the life of a sojourner. It is a heroic life. We are in the world but not of the world. To fail to acknowledge this will lead to a most depressing life.

Psa 15:2  He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Here is what distinguishes a heroic person from a fearful one. To walk uprightly takes courage. To work righteously takes courage. To speak the truth from the heart is to touch heaven with one’s hand!

Psa 15:3  He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. 

Neighbours can test one’s patience to the limit. But if one can live peacefully with one all the days of their lives then no doubt one has seen God.

Psa 15:4  In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. 

The heroic gets even tougher. These days of easy murders it takes great courage to call a spade a spade. People fear death. People fear to antagonize. To speak differently is to invite wrath and hate. But one who does that has tasted freedom.

Psa 15:5  He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Money is a great tempter. So great Judas betrayed Jesus because of it. So great in fact someone will sell their own mother or father without blinking…. These are betting days. So it is very easy to bet with one’s soul as well but when that is gone it is gone. Put cash on the table and eternal life by its side and then choose one. More than half the people in the house will choose money. It is tangible. It is ready. It is easy. The short term will always appeal. But it will fade, it will fly away. Yes the eternal, the unseen…will always glow from a distance. It may seem far…but it will come. And that is what makes the waiting seem like nothing…because it will come! Yes we shall not be moved but we shall wait for it all the days of our lives!

Hab 3:17  Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 

Hab 3:18  Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 

And that is surely something worth to sing about!

HopeisnotAshamed!