This morning as I had my time with God I was reminded of a concept that came to me before I fell asleep. A concept which suggests we can experience what heaven will be like before we get there. Seems kind of far-fetched or movie-like but as I tuned into what God was telling me it became clear. In the last couple of weeks I have been praying for change in my personality. I must admit that even though I have been walking with the Lord for a number of years I still have personality issues, two of which were anger and a not so loving heart, which is hard to admit for the best of us. I realise that  LOVE which covers just about everything in life, is such a big thing that we take for granted and assume we have mastered, but I will admit that I have not in the way desired by God. So I was really praying for continued general change to take place in my life and allow me to laugh more. Change that would allow me to stop and hug my kids and other kids more. Change that would prompt me to say I love you with more feeling. Change that would cause me to accept my husband, flaws and all without trying to change him, after all, I am far from perfect.

So I have been praying in earnest for these changes and that is what happens as we grow closer to God. We want to make sure that our old ways are renewed by the Holy Spirit. I believe in being renewed and seeing from a Godlike perspective we can experience heaven here on earth.

I believe in heaven we will have no thoughts to controlling the things we do, we will operate in a natural and genuine way. We will have no ulterior motives in our actions. We will just be surrounded by bliss and joy. There are times I have come close to feeling this way and I pause and reflect that this must be what heaven feels like. At certain times my heart fills with an unmistakable joy and I just have to stop what I am doing and say thank you Lord this must be heaven I am experiencing.

I also believe our first experience of heaven begins in our heart and when we allow the Holy Spirit to work in our life. In Psalm 91 vs. 7  we are told that a thousand will fall at our side and ten thousand at our right hand and it will not come near us. Of course this speaks to God’s protection over our lives but it also speaks to me living in a world that despite the negatives around me, I am not perturbed. I walk in confidence, untouched because I am living in my own world that gives me a taste of heaven.

We will never know what heaven is like until we get there, but, I do believe that we can feel and experience in our hearts first and foremost what it may be like. We will then allow the feelings and experiences to flow into our own physical world thereby impacting others world, but we need to submit to the Holy Spirit and allow ourselves to be changed.

Let us pray to God to help us to open our hearts to be filled with His presence causing total and continued change within us. To help us to constantly meditate on His word so that our ways and our world will be a reflection of Him, giving us our first experience of what heaven could possibly feel like.