Alright, let’s jump back into Pastor Rusty’s message “One Destiny” and see what else we can discover! Pastor Rusty said, “God is my greatest desire whether I know it or not.” You may long for certain things to be gone (COVID-19 and disease in general), or perhaps you long for healing, for racism to end, for a government you can trust (people with integrity).
What you may not realize is that when you long for these things, you’re actually longing for God. Longing for healing? God is the Healer. Longing for unity? God created that! Some things in life shift and change, but God is unchanging. He’s permanent! You should thirst for Him! “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land where there is no water” (Psalm 63:1, NIV).
This life is important. Relationships matter (especially your relationship with God). The more you know Him, the more you’ll understand the importance of your heavenly destiny. Job 19:25-27 (NIV): “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” Your heart should yearn to see God.
As Pastor Rusty said, “Heaven is seeing God up close and personal.” Who wouldn’t want that? Can you imagine what it’s going to be like to spend eternity with your Creator? I want you to let these words from 1 John 3:2-3 sink in. “Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure” (NIV).
Take Pastor Rusty’s advice: “Spend some time opening your eyes to heaven.”