"Our Father Who Is in Heaven": Set Free Forever

Too many of us are far too vague... 

• in our ideas about spiritual realities. 
• If God is in heaven, then we ought to know something about heaven. 
• If He is our Father and heaven is His natural environment, 
• we should understand what that realm is really like.

...our lifelong conditioning... 

• to an earthly existence, 
• wherein our capacity to grasp or understand heavenly things 
• is exceedingly limited.

We are so engulfed and surrounded...

• by the sordid conditions of our own existence on earth, 
• we can scarcely imagine being set free into a fresh, dynamic dimension of living,
• totally divorced from all that we know here.

Heaven is our Father’s native environment. 

• This is His natural abode. 
• This is His home, 
• which He wants to share with us.

In heaven we are set free... 

• from the assaults of our arch-enemy Satan.  
• In heaven the child of God no longer contends with the subtle insinuations and dark deceptions which the devil devises.  
• His temptations and deceitful tactics are no more.  
• What a glorious relief!  
• Our doubting days are done.  
• Our temptations are past.

In Heaven we are released...

• from the strain of separation.
• We live in a world where the parting of ways and leave-taking of loved ones always wrenches the heart and strains the emotions.
• But in heaven we are in an atmosphere of quiet contentment.
• We are finally home.
• Our restless spirits are at rest -
• they have found their abode in God.

To Be Continued...

Adapted Excerpt from A Layman Looks at the Lord's Prayer

By W. Phillip Keller