No Better Place to be


"Well, I was eight years old when I decided to follow Jesus
I started down that road
Somebody told me that this path that leads to heaven
Will not be the easy way
Well I found that to be true
Oh, but I also found, I found out there's

CHORUS
No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven
No other place I'd rather be
No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven
No better place to be

Now I know this road has a final destination
But I also know that if we're only looking for the prize that's waiting
We'll miss so much along the way
'Cause Jesus came to bring us life in the here and now
And to show us that there's

CHORUS
No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven
No other place I'd rather be
No better place on earth than the road that leads to heaven
No better place to be


BRIDGE
I know this path we travel on
Is very straight and narrow
But I've looked down other roads along the way
And from all I've seen I can say without a doubt there's" No Better Place-Steven Curtis Chapman




I want you to understand why I picked this song to be the opener for this post. It is because as I was driving home yesterday, God pointed something out to me. If you look at the second verse and reread it I hope you see what I did so very clearly. We ARE to have an eternal focus, we are to look forward to Heaven BUT if we keep it there we will miss what He has called for us to do here TODAY!!! I want to make sure that I don't miss what needs to be done here just as much as I want my eternal perspective to remain. This is definitely a balancing act and sometimes it isn't easy. Its so easy to miss what we need to do here when all we are hoping for is heaven, and it is so easy to forget about Heaven when we get entangled in the things of this world. I know that part of our need for God is to keep our focus balanced. We want to get rid of the pain so we gaze to heaven, the place of no more pain and sorrow. Then our circumstances scream and our focus is now in the moment and we can loose the reason for us being here. It isn't easy. I suck at it most of the time, until I am reminded like I was yesterday that it is about being mindful of Heaven in our circumstances. It is allowing people to work out their issues in not getting the answers they want with God, and reminding them and ourselves of a better place. A friend said one time, "For a non christian, this is the closest they will EVER get to heaven, but for us as christians, this is the closest we will get to Hell." WOW! Pretty profound if you think about it. If I have to endure a bit of Hell here to get Heaven and all that that entales then I am more than content here on earth, as long as he wants me to be. I am so blessed and amazed at how realizing that our job here is to tell others of Jesus and bring them with us, then that is what we need to do. So today let us try and keep a heavenly perspective as we deal with the physical world. I want to take as many people with me, to that BETTER PLACE!

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