It has often been pondered just how far Heaven is? Is it some distant place far beyond what the human eye can perceive? Even with the ability to now view planets and galaxies through the lenses of powerful telescopes or the once invisible world of organisms and matter through high powered microscopes; we still have yet to conquer the ability to see the unseen! It still remains the greatest mystery. Yet Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven like it is the simplest of things. He said if we do not accept it as a little child, we cannot enter in.
Children... what is it about a child that makes them ever perceiving the nearness of Heaven? Surely not their lack of sin, since we are told, "For all have sinned an fallen short of the Glory of God." We know we are born into sin. It's merely the environment of this fallen world. So what is it about the child that allows them to perceive?
Faith, is perhaps one of the most overlooked and misunderstood concepts of our time. We are told to have faith and yet how many of us really know how to define it? What is this belief in the unseen? Our logical, fact finding, ever discovering minds have trouble attempting to accurately define a concept that young children master. We must prove everything. We must understand everything. Maybe just maybe, it is our inability to let go of control that blocks this powerful ability that moves heaven and earth.
Could it be that we are close enough to touch heaven every single moment of every day? To draw it to ourselves with the magnet of faith?
So I will continually learn to let go of control and watch mountains move and in doing so glimpse Heaven here and now! Why wait?
As you go, proclaim this message: 'The kingdom of heaven has come near.' Matthews 10:7
