Heaven

Oh my goodness! I have so much to talk about today! I hope I don't bore y'all to death!

Today, we all went to church as a family again. We were late, but better late than never, right?!

The service was awesome, as usual. We sang "I Can Only Imagine", which I LOVED! It was appropriate since the service was about Heaven today. We talked about some of the things that Satan tries to convince people, like that Heaven can wait and that most people are going to Heaven. For every 1 person that says they are going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they are going to Heaven. However, the Bible says in Matthew 7:13-14 that "wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

Our Pastor tried to give us a glimpse into Heaven, and what it will be like, but he explained to us that there are just no words to accurately describe how magnificent it will be! Think of the best thing that has ever happened in your life......Heaven will be even better than that and it will last forever! "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" 1 Corinthians 2:9 For believers, even the best thing we can imagine will not come close to how wonderful Heaven is going to be! For non-believers, the best thing that's ever happened in their life will be the closest they will ever come to Heaven.

We talked about the question, "Why would a loving God choose to create Hell?" Our Pastor explained this so simply. Without the choice, there would be no love. God didn't want to create robots who would follow Him. He wanted us to choose to love Him. He wanted it to be our choice to follow Him. That is the only way that we could truly love Him. By giving us the choice, we are free to love Him or to not love Him. If we choose to reject Him, then we make the choice to be eternally separated from Him in Hell. Satan will try to convince us that Hell isn't all that bad, but everything good comes from God. As hard as it is to imagine how wonderful Heaven will be, I think it is equally hard to conceive how utterly horrible Hell would be.

After the service, I died laughing because Kaylee was showing me her picture that she drew of me. In the picture, I was holding a "Twilight" book! Is that not the funniest thing?! LOL We all went out to eat and used some gift cards that we had gotten for Christmas, so that was nice! After lunch, I had agreed to take the girls to Target to get new swimsuits. I was informed by them that if I did that, I could go to Starbucks afterwards as my reward! Ha!

Y'all will never believe what happened at Target!!!! Lily was running around the corner and she almost ran into a lady's shopping cart and I told her that she was about to get run over and I smiled and said "excuse us!" Well, a few seconds later, someone said "Kristin?" I turned around and these two ladies came up to me and said "we are fans of your blog!" I about died! I left a comment the other day on Christy's blog because I found out she lives in Baytown too, and because of that, I made a friend named Dana who also lives here in Baytown (but doesn't have a blog) and we've been emailing each other back and forth. That was the lady that Lily almost ran in to!!! Can you believe that?!! Her friend, Roberta, was with her and she's the one that recognized me from my blog! Ha! Roberta lives right down the road from me. I never would've known who they were because I had only met Dana online and had never seen a picture of her! We talked for a few minutes and said we will all have to go have lunch one day. That just made my day! I just could not believe that God would orchestrate for us to run into each other at Target! Isn't God absolutely amazing?!! So, if y'all are reading this.......Hi Dana and Roberta! It was so great to meet y'all today!!

By the way, I totally went to Starbucks for my reward afterwards!

It was just another awesome day, filled with moments that made me even more aware of how awesome life is and how much life is worth living when you love the Lord! When you make that choice to dedicate your life to Him, or rededicate it (like I did), He will prove to you in ways every single day just how much He loves you too!