PIE IN THE SKY WHEN WE DIE by steve johnson
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here’s a story about a dying woman who, believers to be and do all that God wants in making funeral arrangements, told for us (Acts 2:32–33). Our priority is not to her pastor she wanted to be buried with a fork rely on our own strength but to walk daily in the power of the Spirit. in her right hand. The pastor was stunned. She said, "All my life I have gone to church Prayer Romans 8:34–38 tells us the resurrected potluck suppers. When the main course was over and they came to clear the table inevita- Jesus is sitting at God’s right hand praying bly someone would lean over and say, 'Keep for us. When we have any trouble, it doesn’t your fork.' That was my favourite part of the mean He no longer loves us. Rather, He is praying for us and invites us to come boldly meal. I knew dessert was coming.” Then she said, “I want to be laid out in to God for mercy, grace, and peace to help my casket with a fork in my right hand, us through (Hebrews 4:16). Position because I want people Christ’s Resurrection has As those in Christ to come by and look and wonder, 'What’s with the practical meaning for us believers were raised fork?' And then pastor, as believers struggling when He was raised and you will have the opporto live godly lives here are now seated with Him in the heavens in tunity to tell them, ‘Keep on earth! the position of victory your fork because the best (Ephesians 1:21; 2:6). On that basis, when is yet to come.’" Christ’s Resurrection means believers tempted, we can resist the Devil, and he too shall be raised—there is unimaginable will flee (James 4:7). I look forward to heaven’s desserts. But dessert coming! But some believers may not be aware that’s not all it means. There’s Christ’s Resurrection also provides me more than just pie in the sky when we die. with more than that. It gives me things to Christ’s Resurrection has practical mean- share in here and now. So don’t just wait ing for us as believers struggling to live for pie in the sky when you die. Pick up your fork and taste for yourself! godly lives here on earth! Here are some desserts that are ours to taste now. Steve Johnson is the executive director at Insight for Power Living Canada. When Jesus ascended to heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to indwell and empower
