Questions in Light of Heaven

Our family just finished reading through Randy Alcorn's incredible work, Heaven. If you have not read this book, now is the time to pick it up. It is game-changing, for sure, even life-changing. It will thoroughly change how you view Heaven (for the better) and will encourage you beyond belief. I speak from experience.

At the close of the book, he asked a few reflective questions on living now in light of Heaven, and they were so helpful that I thought I would share them here. They are convicting, encouraging, and motivating.

Do I daily reflect on my own mortality? 

Do I daily realize there are only two destinations - Heaven or Hell - and that I and every person I know will go to one or the other? 

Do I daily remind myself that this world is not my home and that everything in it will burn, leaving behind only what's eternal? 

Do I daily recognize that my choices and actions have direct influence on the world to come? 

Do I daily realize that my life is being examined by God, the Audience of One, and that the only appraisal of my life that will ultimately matter is his? 

Do I daily reflect on the fact that my ultimate home will be the New Earth, where I will see God and serve him as a resurrected being in a resurrected human society, where I will overflow with joy and delight in drawing nearer to God by studying him and his creation, and where I will exercise, to God's glory, dominion over his creation?

-- Quoted from Heaven, pgs. 453-454