“I Don’t Want to Go to Heaven . . .”

Mike Wittmer:

I don’t want to go to heaven.  Not that I’m lobbying for the other place – – I want no part of everlasting fire and unbearable, unquenchable torment . . .

I’d love to go to heaven – – for a visit.  It will be unspeakably exhilarating to stand in the presence of God and sing his praises – – but to do nothing except this forever and ever?  That’s a lot of rounds of, “Shine, Jesus, Shine.” . . .

So the Christian hope is not merely that someday we and our loved ones will die and go to be with Jesus.  Instead, the Christian hope is that our departure from this world is just the first leg of a journey that is round-trip.