Talking Points: Let Heaven Come

Isaiah 66:1, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place me?”

I want to be your resting place, Jesus.

Jesus goes where He’s invited, and I want to build Him a house of dwelling with my life. I want my primary job to be loving and knowing Jesus, and for everything else to be secondary. 

When Mary (Martha’s sister) poured out her life to Jesus, her past, present, and future, His response was to say: “She has done a beautiful thing to me…She did what she could” (Mark 14:6-8). The cry of my heart is for Jesus to say the same over me. How can I pour out my life as a fragrance before the King?

I want to reject comfort and security and instead embrace danger in Jesus’ name. Nothing apostolic is safe. Jesus is my protection, and He calls me into adventurous living with Him.

He calls me to cherish diversity and rally a new race of lovers of His heart, united by the blood of Jesus: a holy nation, a royal priesthood, God’s special possession (1 Peter 2:9).

He calls me to bind up the brokenhearted, that’s some messy work (Isaiah 61:1).

He calls me to “rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated,” to knock down the precepts of the father of lies and reestablish the Kingdom’s standards in the earth (Isaiah 61:4).

He calls me to an attitude of dependency where my understanding is that Jesus is not all I need, but that He’s all I’ve got. 

He calls me to give this hope to which I have been called, away (Ephesians 1:18). 

He calls me, out of His unapproachable light (Ephesians 1:19), to use my light to bring out the God-colors of this world (Matthew 5:14).

It’s a call with weight and significance, not to be taken lightly because it’s not a light concept. It is life or death, freedom or captivity, wholeness or disease. 

Let’s stop protecting our egos and reputations and start acting like our actions directly impact the Kingdom of Heaven, because they do.