HEAVEN:
REWARDS; CELEBRITIES

Right now we live in a confused and mixed up world. Some people get the headlines who, if the truth were known, should be getting a striped suit in a prison somewhere.

There are other worthy persons who are completely ignored in this world and, if the truth were known, they would be on the front covers of the news magazines next week.

God is not mixed up, though. God is not confused! God continues to watch the human scene and He has His own process for sorting things out. Many a person receiving the praise and plaudits of the world today will be sorted out when God’s time comes. He does not sort them out down here in our time. He did not even sort them out when His twelve disciples were with Him. Peter was a coward and Judas was a lover of money and a betrayer, but not until the last minute did He even mention it. But when Judas died he was sorted out. He died and went to his own place.

Death sorts us out and if we go to heaven it is because we have a nature that belongs there. It is not hard for the sovereign God to sort out all the natures that belong in heaven and take them there.

Matthew 13:29–30; Matthew 27:3–4; Acts 1:25

Echoes from Eden, 103.