If you had heaven..

At church house group recently we discussed an interesting question. If you had heaven, with every good thing. Every blessing. Every person you have ever loved. All of nature. All your favourite places from Earth. All the foods you love, and all those yet to be discovered. Everything you could ever imagine. Perfection. But Jesus was not there. Would it still be heaven for you?

The consensus was mostly around the view that this heaven would actually be hell as Jesus is not there. The debate went on for some time though. It was considered that if someone offered you this heaven without Jesus, they may well be someone that had offered a tempting fruit once a long time ago.

As I pondered this discussion later while listening to some worship music, I was struck by the thought that:

If Jesus could have heaven with every good thing. Every luxury. Every bit of nature. Every angel. Every prophet and apostle. Father God and Holy Spirit. But not every single one of his beloveds. It would not be heaven to Him.

This also led to the train of thought of how it must break His heart knowing that many of His pinnacle of creation human beings will not be there. This challenges me to try again to witness to people of the love and miracles I have come to know.