SURPRISE!!! Guess who made it to heaven???

YOU are going to be sooooooooooo surprised when you enter the gates of heaven and see who is standing there to greet you!!!

Do you have a tally going of who is going to heaven and who isn't? If you are honest enough, at least with yourself, you will find that YOU DO have an formed opinion already of those who will be "good enough" to make it into heaven.

Christians call that "righteous Judgment" or "seeing the fruit of the Spirit" working out in someone's life! I mean, we as Christians, surely make it our duty to be "God" in someone else's life. We have been in this "walk" with Christ long enough to KNOW when someone has it together and when someone CLEARLY does NOT!!! Um...hang on with me here.

A little bit ago, I was thinking of Eric Clapton's song, "Tears in Heaven", and although I cannot recall the lyrics without looking them up, I felt God tug at my heart, almost as if to say,

"What if those were my tears?"

"Excuse me, God? And what does that mean?" I questioned my Loving Father.

"You know that person who can't seem to get his life together? The one that you have, so obviously, seemed to condemn to hell because he doesn't "fit" your mold of what a "Christian" should look like?" God gently convicted me.

God continued..."And what about that man who can't stay sober or clean for more than 24 hours??? What about the woman or man who can't stay faithful or even single because they feel like they need someone to live their life with them??? Do you remember those people? The people who hurt others so often because they hurt so much themselves?"

"Why, yes, of course God! How can I forget them?" I replied.

"Who gave YOU a right to judge what they should 'look like' or how 'together' they should have it? And further more, do you realize how it grieves my heart when YOU decide they are NOT my children because they do not look or act like you?"

"Um...they are Your children???" I questioned God.

"Yes, my sweet daughter...Just because you cannot see what I am doing in their hearts, does NOT mean that they haven't accepted my Son, Jesus, into their heart...

..."You will be surprised when you get to heaven and see all of my kids. People that you and others have decided are 'lost causes' or simply too 'bad' to ever get into heaven. To you, they look like they are covered in filthy sin because you are looking withYOUR eyes; to me, however, they are clean, pure, and spotless because I am looking at them through the blood of Jesus which has washed them white as snow...

..."With your eyes, you see drug addicts, alcoholics, porn addicts, murderers, conceited people, thiefs...but if you look at them through MY eyes, hmmm...you will see the beauty in them that I see! My glorious, gorgeous kids who simply have come to me...JUST AS THEY ARE. I believe, sweet daughter, I have received you just as you were/are...do I need to expose YOUR heart?...

..."Please let the rest of my kids know that I grieve and I cry tears of sorrow when they, too, judge others who don't "fit" their mold of a Christian. Let me be the Judge. You, Heaven Sparks, simply love on my kids! (Not just the ones who you think 'deserve it'). And remember...you, too, are saved by My Grace, and my grace alone!"

Love, Your Heavenly Papa God!