WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN

I was raised in a church that sang a lot of old hymns (from the 1800-1900’s) as well as a lot of Southern Gospel Quartet type music. I still like them both very much. However, I do not much care for the theology of many of them such as “When We All Get to Heaven,” or “A Little Cabin in the Corner of Glory Land,” or “Walking on Streets of Gold,” and many such titles.
I simply no longer ‘see’ heaven in this way. To me it is not so much a place as a Person. Heaven is to be with the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit forever in Garden of Eden communion and Hell is not to be with the Father, but with Satan in Hell without any contact or communion with the Father forever. That’s scary Larry stuff right there.
One way to see it (and my choice of ways) is to know that to the degree I enjoy the presence of the Father, Jesus and the Holy Sprit now is how much I shall later… and the opposite is true concerning the Devil and Hell. As Dallas Willard (1935-2013) once wrote, “People who don’t like God enough to seek him and spend time with him here are very likely to find heaven utterly agonizing.” I so totally agree.
“If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” Jesus