HEAVEN IS NOT YOUR HOME

A couple of years ago, I engaged my social media friends with a conversation centred around the quest and deep heart longing for 'making' heaven. Their responses came pouring in in different shades. While some affirmed that heaven is the final place of rest for the new creation man, others posited that it is only a temporary place for the new creation man.

The discussion extended into asking if they would still keep their moral integrity if a liable source (divinity) discloses that there is no longer the promise of 'heaven'. A good number submitted that; what then would be the essence/reward of living in response to God's gift of righteousness.

This submission brought me into the conclusion that many professing new creation men are simply doing so for the purpose of being rewarded with a heavenly abode (wherever the Father dwells is heaven....the person makes it heaven not the environment) - so much that a prayer would not be seen as complete if it is not coated or better still rounded off by the cliche, '....and you shall make heaven at last.'

Some would even have wished that they were immediately translated at the point of accepting the gift of God to all mankind (the kind called Man) - until they came across the words of the Lord in His prayers for His disciples. He prayed thus: "I do not pray that you should take them out of the world (immediate translation), but that you should keep them from the evil one (Jh 17:15 ext. mine).

My continued study of Scriptures have revealed that the essence of the new creation is to live the life as it was originally designed to be lived wherever we find ourselves - either in the corrupt world or in a perfect abode some refer to as 'paradise'.

Worthy of note is also the truth that the new creation man is wired to live at a higher and superior dimension to the old creation man. If you seek a perfect example of such a life, search no further - the perfect template is found in the man, Jesus, the Christ. He lived in complete dominion over all the created things. Notice I said things and not people. You are not designed to dominate people but the created things.

Jesus, our perfect example of leadership, never took forcefully His followers freewill. As a matter of fact, they always had their will - their freedom of choice was always theirs. They followed because they trust and love His message and Himself. He was and is indeed a perfect advocate for man. He came down to earth to show man how to live on earth and proceeded into the heavens - breaking through all barriers to reaching the very throne of God and sat down at the right hand of His majesty until His enemies are made subject completely to Him. After which He would reign on earth as the eternally crowned king - being the firstborn of all the kind called man from the dead (old nature).

'In the beginning....' I here refer to the beginning of what is known as mankind. The first verse of Genesis chapter one was not the beginning of God neither was it the beginning of spiritual beings. The creation order as seen in that book was entirely centered on how the kind called man came into existence. There are other kinds that were before the kind called man.

Earth was and is made exclusively for man. To illustrate: You don't start living in your house before it is built. The house is first built. The essence of the house is not in itself but for the purpose of its dwellers. The abode for man was first made - with all its amenities before the crown of the order was introduced. With this, you should be able to picture the height of injustice man does to his personality by worshipping the sun, moon, stars, animals, seas, trees etc.
The great insurrection called unbelief, led the kind called man into his doom - so much that even the earth became hostile to him. The created things began to hunt him - as they, since then, awaits his manifestation.

The Father's unfailing love bond for the kind called man was not broken still. He decided to offer Himself to appease Himself as a propitiation on man's behalf.

The redemptive process thus began with the kind called man. He could thus live on the polluted earth as the redeemed of the Lord based on the atoning sacrifice of the lamb of God. The glory of the kind called man can hence only be seen in his adoption into the one big family of God. There is nothing called the dignity of mankind outside the personality of divinity. Divinity bestows upon humanity her dignity.

A glimpse of the redemption of animals played out when Daniel, the prophet of old was thrown into the lion's den and came out unscathed. I like to submit that the lions were simply operating in their natural order. It is an abuse of purpose when animals eat up man's flesh. They were not created thus. I am currently engaging my pen in writing - that was the original purpose for which it was made but I could also use it as a weapon of destruction - which would be an abuse. A change of the nomenclature of an object often bestows upon it another usage on which it could be rendered - even when the physical design has not been altered.

The new creation man awaits the redemption of the earth in its entirety. His current presence on earth only redeems it tentatively.
See you on the new Earth with the new heaven - where the architect and builder is GOD.

AUTHORITY
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me. (Jer. 27:5)

The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S; but the earth He has given to the children of men. (Ps. 115:16)

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (Rom. 11:29)