What Was It Like?

"In the beginning, God..." Ge 1:1

Whenever we are at Folly there is a place that I always end up half way through my walk. It is the upper deck at the end of the pier, and over the years it has become a sanctuary like environment. I have prayed for many people up there, I have contributed many of my own tears to the ocean and I have even been prayed over by a homeless man. Usually it is where I sit still, listen to worship music and pray. Yesterday as I sat there listening to music, the singer got to a part in the song when the crowd began wildly cheering and applauding. I asked God what it was like to hear that applause and adoration from Heaven…to see an auditorium of arms raised…praise lifted. I found myself considering other things that God had witnessed from Heaven since the beginning of time.

‘What was it like Lord to see the brilliance of light shatter the darkness for the first time? What was it like Father when you were walking in the garden in the cool of the evening calling out to your first children, Adam and Eve? What was it like to step out of your home of perfection and into a broken world taking on flesh? What was it like to see your Son on His knees in the garden asking you to remove His suffering? What was it like to know it was the very moment where the eyes of your Son opened, and death had lost the battle? I’ll just bet the angels cheered and Heaven was roaring with praise. What was that like?’

I began considering my own ‘what will it be like’ scenarios and my heart began racing. ‘What will it be like God when the decade-long dream of my heart is finally mine to grab onto? What will it be like as I am closing my eyes to this world and opening my eyes to OUR world? What will it be like the first glimpse I catch of my dad in paradise? What will it be like when your face is the first thing I see with my perfect vision.

What will it be like when God gives you the desire of your heart for which you have been praying? What will it be like when you are finally healed? What will it be like when you find that romance for which your heart has been searching...or the broken marriage that has been mended? There are so many wonderful realizations up ahead for each of us because God is a generous and loving God.

God knows what will enter our lives, and the proper time of its arrival. He tells the wind where to go, and the waves when to crash on the shore. Certainly, the God of this powerful orchestration has beautiful things for each of us. So keep dreaming…keep watching…keep praying. God knows exactly what it will be like for all of us because our future is His history.

"But your heavenly Father is even more ready to give good things to people who ask." Matthew 7:11