Suffering is many things, but in the end it is God's invitation to us to trust Him, and to look forward to place where all suffering will forever be replaced by joy—Heaven.
— Randy Alcorn
I am now reading Randy Alcorn's Book "Heaven." In it, he deals with the point that there is so little talked about Heaven in our seminaries, and in our Churches. As a result, he says no one knows much about their eternal destination nor is anyone looking forward to going there. He notes the saying "You are so heavenly minded that you are no earthly good," as a reason why most people don't focus on teaching about it, yet his point is historically the people who have done the most for this world are the ones who have had their focus on the next---Heaven. If what he is saying is a truism, then unless Christians being to set their mind on things above [Heaven], the church will not have its maximum impact upon the earth!
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