Heaven’s Just A Sin Away…

Heaven’s just a sin away….

Remember that old country song?

I’m talking about the Christian heaven – the place good people go when they die. I understand that there are a lot of different ideas about who gets in to heaven and how it all works but I’m not here to argue that one way or another.

The thing that I find intriguing is the whole concept of heaven and how we relate it to ourselves – and the way we put ourselves in the other place….

We’ve made heaven the habitation of the soul or spirit. The physical body doesn’t get to enjoy heaven. Although there is a fair amount of effort put into achieving some sort of physical bliss it definitely isn’t eternal!

Even though heaven is a place for the soul, we’ve made it to be a physical place. In the Christian tradition it has streets of gold, pearly gates – it’s a great city. In other traditions apparently you get 72 virgins – but I don’t really know anything about that.

It is interesting to me that we’ve made heaven a physical place for non physical beings. Don’t you find that a bit strange? I mean why would your spirit care if it’s gliding over streets of gold or streets of mud? What’s the gate for anyway? Spirits can’t be contained by fences, walls or anything else as far as I know.

Which brings me to the question – is it possible that we have the whole idea of heaven a bit off?

What if heaven IS just a sin away? The sin may be just an erroneous idea about heaven. So if we repent of that idea – then we may experience heaven!

Are you willing to consider the possibility?

Here’s the deal. Your spirit is eternal and knows no physical constraints. If you are reading this your spirit is likely inhabiting a body so it may seem that there are some limits – but those limits are a function of the physical, not the spiritual.

In the spirit there is no past, present or future. Because the spirit is eternal it’s already in the “eternity” we tend to think of as a time period that begins when we die. Which means that if heaven is a place for the spirit in eternity that you have the potential to experience it now.

The “sin” is thinking about heaven as a physical place when actually it’s a spiritual condition – just as hell is a spiritual condition.

So there’s the sin that keeps you out of heaven. It’s the idea that heaven is something other than what it really is.

Two of the other important characteristics of heaven is oneness with God and a place of pure peace. This again is a condition of spirit. The physical body can’t experience either one unless the spirit is dwelling in that space.

Guess what? Your spirit can experience that now! In fact in this moment is the only time that spirit can experience peace and oneness with God. You will not magically wake up some day and just find yourself connected with God in a wonderful place of peace.

Which brings up an interesting question – what does happen when the spirit separates from the body? Is there any real reason to believe that your spirit is going to become something that it hasn’t been while providing life to your body?

I don’t think so – which means that every possibility that your spirit could enjoy in “heaven” is available now.

Heaven really is just a sin away. Another way of saying it is sin stands between us and heaven.

All we have to do is let go of the “sin” of wrong thinking and allow our spirit to be at peace and one with God – which is its true condition.

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