“I didn’t believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of your great wisdom! It is far beyond what I was told.” (2 Chronicles 9:6 NLT)
Because God has no limits in anything or in any way, we do not always understand just what God can do. We underestimate Him. When we stop to think, it is something which we cannot avoid doing. No matter what we just cannot have a handle on how big God really is. God cannot be put in a box. The Lord has no boundaries or barriers, no limits or restrictions. He is endless in direction and duration, in space and time. His vast qualities are like bottomless oceans without shores. Our human minds cannot understand the depths of His presence, majesty, power, glory, and grace. There's no ceiling to His love, anger, wealth, and intelligence. Our minds are surprised with what God does, and we can no more fit Him into our thoughts than we could fit the water from every ocean into a thimble.
There is no way for us to comprehend just how big God is in His limitless self. So it would seem logical to say that because we can never understand just how big God is, we always think God can do less than He is really able to do.
Nothing is a surprise to God, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He sees the past, the present, and the future in one glance. Whatever our thoughts are about the return of Christ and our eternal home with Him, the reality will be even better.
The verse from 2 Chronicles is the Queen of Sheba’s response when she first saw Solomon’s wealth. She had no idea something like that even existed. What she saw was earthly wealth given by God. But Solomon took the credit.
Lives are changed with the Gospel. Who gets the credit? Does the person accepting salvation get the credit? No, God gets the credit. Can you imagine what God has in store for believers? We'll say with the Queen of Sheba that the half was not told. We have no idea what waits for us in heaven.
“That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.” (1 Corinthians 2:9-10 NLT)
But, Satan has deceived people into believing that Heaven is a boring place. It is one long Church service, where ghostly spirits with sad faces float around playing the harp!
But Heaven is a place full of God’s glory and full of the glory of everything that is God. It is a place where the atmosphere is full of glory and as we breathe in all of God’s glorious presence all of our senses are filled with His glory. When we catch a glimpse of heaven, we see things in an eternal point of view.
When Satan was forcibly removed from heaven, he became bitter against God, and against man, and against heaven. He is no longer welcome there. He became God’s enemy. Believers remind Satan of the time that he used to be not only in heaven but in the very throne room of almighty God. Satan wants to destroy everything connected to God. That would include you, me, and our promise of heaven.
So when God’s people start to seek God’s eternal point of view, and God’s view of heaven, let’s just say Satan gets upset. That is putting it mildly. He can’t stand it. He knows that the moment someone sees heaven and tastes its atmosphere, he has lost souls, because that person will be transformed by glory. This is the key reason people oppose the move of glory. The opposition is not inspired out of heaven but out of Satan’s mind.
“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.” (Colossians 3:1-2 NLT)
Focus on the things of heaven and not the things of earth. What waits for us in heaven? God knows. We can only imagine.
“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.” (Ephesians 3:20 NLT)
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