11/04/2026 – “Seeing the Colors of Heaven”
“It was a sunny afternoon. The teacher led me into one of the school’s most beautiful of gardens, a garden filled of all varieties and colors. Then he handed me a piece of colored glass.
“Now look at the garden through the glass. How many colors do you see?”
“Just one,” I replied. “Everything’s red.”
“Yes. The glass filtered out every ray of light except for the red. Even thought the garden is filled with colors, all you can see through the glass is red. The world, like this garden, is a mix of colors. What God is created is good. But the creation is fallen and is now a mix of good and evil. It will be your glass that will determine what you see and what you receive from the world… The things you take for granted will become the filter of your glass. If you live expecting and requiring of this world heaven and perfection, if you live as one who deserves to be blessed, and thus taking the blessings for granted, you’ll become blinded from seeing your blessings.”
“I would have thought it to be the opposite.”
“No,” said the teacher. “What you take for granted is that what you blind yourself from seeing and what you end up losing. If you take the good for granted, you’ll filter out the good. And the only thing you’ll see is all that is wrong and not good – the imperfect and the dark. So requiring heaven of this life ends up removing heaven from this life, and makes life hellish.”
At that, he handed me a second glass. When I lifted it to my eyes, I saw all the other colors, everything except the red.
“This is the secret,” he said, “and it’s linked to hell. If instead of taking heaven for granted, you take hell for granted… in other words, that you deserve judgment but have been given grace instead… in other words, that you deserve judgment but have been given grace instead … what then will happen? The opposite. Your heart will see only the good and every blessing. Everything will become a gift from God, and every moment, His grace. You see, compared to hell, this life is heaven. Learn to see through the second glass, and you’ll filter out hell. And what will remain? Heaven… and a heavenly life… and you will see everything in heavenly colors.”
The Mission: “Take judgment and hell for granted and the fact that you’re save from it, and every other blessing in your life as total undeserved grace. And, by this, live a heavenly life.”
Romans 5:8; 1 Timothy 1: 15-17; James 1:17; 1 John 3:1
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Soli Deo Gloria!
Comments:
And I recommend checking out two posts from over five years ago:
06/10/2021 – “Seeing in the Womb” / Read Ephesians 1: 3-14 , subtitled in my Bible as “God’s Rich Blessings.”
06/12/2021 – “Arguments for the Existence of God – The Argument From Desire
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Thoughts? / Reflections? / Questions?
- What does the text reveal about God’s character?
- How has this reading generated prayer for you and/or us?
- Share with the group how our study is calling or confirming to you a new mission to glorify God in our times.