Paul
N. F. (17 May 2011)
"My Dream of Heaven"
My Dream of Heaven ( Please note the very last
sentence.)
The book that I once mentioned before, "My Dream of Heaven",
is very excellent and will give a person some idea of what heaven
is like and
what is expected of us to enter.
It was written over a hundred years
ago by Rebecca Ruter Springer. "It is not a book of fiction for interesting
reading to 'while away' time",
as Rebecca Springer said.
These are
the words of the Rev. Billy Graham about the book. "My Dream of Heaven ---
captures Biblical truths with emotional impressions."
Rebecca Springer
tells of meeting her dear friends and relatives. She also tells when meeting
Jesus, whose great love and kindness had such very great affect on her and
others in each of their meetings with Jesus. She saw HIM often. Such
wonderful descriptions of these encounters with HIM, can't help but bring one
much closer to Jesus.
I'll end with two very short excerpts from the
book which I first saw in another Christian book that led me to obtain My Dream
of Heaven.
(Rebecca in Heaven is talking to her brother who has a long
and close contact with Jesus.)
"Ah , yes"! said my brother, "that is just
it. How little we know! If only we could realize while we are yet mortals,
that day by day we are building for eternity, how different our lives in many
ways would be! Every gentle word, every generous
thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the
life to come. We cannot be selfish and unloving in one life and generous and
loving in the next. The lives are too closely blended---one but a continuation
of the other.
What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and
duties of this blessed life! We seem to think that death of the body means an
entire change to the soul. But that is not the case, by any means. We bring to
this life the same tastes, the same desires, the same knowledge we had before
death.
IF these were not sufficiently pure and good to form a part of
this life, then we ourselves may not enter."
Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.