The First Day In Heaven

I hope whoever painted this piece with the same title as above, will forgive me for using it. It was found on the FB page of someone named James Paul Lerum. I can’t find a signature or any way to identify its origins without extensive research.

I sat down at my computer one Saturday evening to post the announcements from our pastor for our Sunday sermon. Sometimes I put it on the Private FB Group page for our church and sometimes I get lazy and don’t. Today I decided to post it on the group page. As I was scanning a few posts, THIS PICTURE came up! I don’t know why it popped up or who this picture was from but I literally sucked in a breath and my eyes filled with tears. Art has always been a form of expression that I love and never have I had a piece reach out and grab me so swiftly and intensely. Is this how I will be when I get to Heaven? Will Jesus be there waiting with his arms out to wrap around me? Will I be overcome with joy to see Him? These questions raced through my mind unhindered. If we think on death and dying too long, we start to fixate on our families, our homes and “stuff”, and lose site of the end reward; open arms and a joyous reunion, “when we all get to Heaven”. My prayer for today is that we will all look at the picture and visualize yourself as the one smiling, the one being lifted into the air by Jesus. If you can’t, then get right with God. Repent of your sins, seek his forgiveness, and accept his love, mercy and grace, freely given, as you prepare yourself for meeting Jesus.