Calling...Heaven to Earth

Can You Hear Me?

Why doesn’t God come down to earth to speak directly to you?

Indirectly, He has already done that.  In the days of the Creation, God spoke with mankind, face to face.  But it didn’t take long for people to stop believing in Him and go their own ways.

The book of Genesis sums up how quickly mankind turned away from the God who created them, even though they knew Him as their Creator and even though they spoke with Him directly.  Would it really be any different for you or me?

The First Sin

We are a sinful people at heart and it is because of our sin that the path to heaven was broken.  We broke that path to heaven.  When I say “we,” I understand that the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, committed the first sin that officially broke our path to heaven, but honestly, would it be different for you or me?  Would we have behaved any differently?

We have all sinned, so it is not any one person who is at fault, but it did create a problem.

What Man Broke

God did come back to earth to speak with us, but this time was different.  This time God needed to fix what man broke, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to do what no one else could do.

When Jesus Christ came to earth 2000 years ago, it accomplished 3 things.

First, God learned what His creation endured in temptation.  The Bible says that Jesus Christ was tempted in all things, like us, but was without sin.  “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:15

Jesus Christ knows what you are going through.  He knows your struggles with temptation and sin.  He knows you have an enemy who wants to make you fall.  He knows you have an enemy who is actively trying to separate you from Him and your life in heaven.

That is why you will not be judged by your sin, but by what you do with Jesus Christ.

Come Back to Jesus

Second, in His time on earth, God demonstrated repeatedly that He loves His creation and wants them to be healed and whole.  Throughout Jesus’ life, He continually heals everyone.  There are too many examples of Jesus Christ healing in the Bible to share here, but one stands out in my mind.

Jesus Christ healed 10 men who were lepers.  These men were doomed to live life away from others.  Their illness also carried an emotional stigma with it because they had to warn others of their condition.  But when Jesus healed them, only one of the men returned to thank Him and give Him the credit due Him for the healing He had accomplished.

I think Jesus did this work and left this example to challenge you and I.  Are we the one that comes back to Jesus to thank Him for the work He has done and is doing in our lives?  Or are we of the 9 who either take Him for granted or simply avoid and ignore Him?

Preoccupied with our Physical Life

And when it came to hungry people, he fed the multitudes.  There are two direct stories of Jesus Christ feeding very large groups of people.  One group is listed as 5000 while the other is 4000.  But he didn’t want us so preoccupied with our physical lives that we ignore our spiritual lives.

This is obvious when Jesus Christ said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled.  Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” John 6:26-29

That They May Have Life

Like the multitudes, we may be content with being fed for a day and miss the opportunity of a lifetime.  The goal of Jesus’ time here on earth was not to just heal a person or feed a person for a day.  It was to give them a hope and a future.

In speaking about His creation, Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

An Enduring Path

Three, God created an enduring path to heaven for all His creation, from Jesus Christ, forward.

The problem was complex because people didn’t and don’t understand the rules.  We think we understand the rules because we may have mastered an understanding of work and life here on earth.  But those things cannot touch the deep things of heaven and life in the spirit.  We can never truly understand in the flesh what life is like in the spirit until we live in the spirit.  And we can’t do that until this life is over and we take our final breath.

But God understood the ramification of the choice of our sin and its impact on our life in the spirit.  And that is why it cost the death of the most innocent Man to ever live.  Jesus Christ gave His life willingly to make it as easy as possible for us to spend the rest of eternity in heaven where God wants us.

When This Life is Over

So, why doesn’t God come down to earth to speak directly to you?

He’s been there and done that.  It didn’t work and ultimately created a problem that resulted in the death of His Son.  That is quite a cost when your Son is innocent.

But in His life, Jesus Christ left an example of who He is and what we could expect from Him.  Through the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, we find a God who has done His best to prove that He is a God of love and wants us with Him when this life is over.

What You Do with Jesus Christ

God is love and His love covers a multitude of sins.  It is because God loves you that He will not judge you by your sins, but by what you do with Jesus Christ.  The cost for your sin has been paid by Jesus Christ on the cross.  Now it is up to you to either believe in Jesus Christ or not believe.

God, the Creator, is calling to you.  He wants you.  He loves you.  He has made a home in heaven for you that is beyond all compare.  This life has its challenges, but not heaven.  In heaven He has stored up treasures of blessings and rest that you could never imagine.

Do the work of God and believe in Him whom He sent.  You will never regret it.