Many years ago, a friend asked me, “What are you looking forward to?”
Immediately I answered, “Heaven.”
“Well yeah,” he responded with a hint of impatience in his voice, “that’s a given. I meant, what are you looking forward to in the next few weeks?”
Isn’t his attitude indicative of our culture? As the movie title says, heaven can wait — we prefer to invest our thoughts and dreams in the here and now. We envision marriage, careers, children and retirement as fulfilling events that give life joy and meaning, rarely giving attention to eternal matters. Even as Christians, we get more excited about upcoming women’s conferences or our child’s baptism than about being face to face with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Perhaps we need to stop for a moment and remind ourselves of our ultimate vision. That conference and our child’s baptism should point us to Jesus. He must remain as our vision as we submit everything in our lives to Him. Of all that we look forward to, Jesus must be first and foremost.
The Outspoken TULIP 
Excellent! I have always said that I look forward to heaven and the responses I get from friends are usually negative! They don’t want to leave just yet, they have lots to do before going to heaven, etc. I wish we heard more sermons on heaven, maybe we would then look forward……
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