One of my favorite boyhood possessions was a snow globe my dad bought for me at Niagara Falls. I would sit by my bedroom window and turn it over and over making it snow inside that little glass world. It didn’t matter what the weather was outside my window. I could make it snow any time I wanted as long as I had my snow globe. It was a little world inside my big world; which is like our personal world inside the world at large. The world at large is filled with hustle and rushing and wars and endless strife. We have the power to create our own personal world. We can fill it with Jesus and create a pre-heaven.
Revelation 3:20 says, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Once we let Him in things change. Our personal world is filled with peace and we are sheltered from the strife of the outside world. We can watch the news and see what is happening in the outside world but we don’t have to let it change our personal world with Jesus.
When we accept Jesus we are adopted into God’s family. We become citizens of God’s Kingdom and can begin to reap the benefits of citizenship. Our personal world can be such that when we move to heaven it will be but a change of address more than a change of atmosphere. It is amazing what power God shares with us. We don’t have to let the world tell us how to live. Real living can be grand inside our personal world.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 23, 2013
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