Dancing In Heaven

“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and You are exalted as head above all.  Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.  And now we thank you, our God, and praise Your glorious Name.”

~1 Chronicles 29:11-13

I was posting our book of the month on my company website this morning and got to thinking of how wonderful the Lord really is. The book is called Signing To The Angels by Claire Muller. It’s the true story of how this wonderful, godly lady and her husband adopted a two-year-old girl no one wanted. Shelly was born deaf and mute, she couldn’t walk or feed herself, yet she was a sparkling little jewel God had created. Shelly only lived to age 21 but in her short life, she touched the lives of all she met. And although I never met her, just by reading this book, Shelly left an indelible mark on my soul.

“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might that He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1:17-20).”

Sometimes, I think we forget how blessed we are, and how much God has done for us because we get bogged down in trials of life. Our five senses are on overload and our lives are filled with the stresses of this world and it can become too much to bear. This life is but for a moment and then it will be over, and what lies beyond is a life with Christ Jesus. A glorious life that we can’t imagine now but will cause this life to fade from memory. Every trial we face, every day we press forward is leading us home to glory in Christ Jesus. We endure using the Lord’s strength, drawing on His wisdom and love, through prayer and worship. And one day, like Shelly, we will be dancing in Heaven on streets of gold.

“So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light (Colossians 1:10-12).” 

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You can see Signing To The Angels by Claire Muller here

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