What makes heaven heaven?
The most important thing which makes heaven heaven is that we are in communion with God which will never end, or in other words, we participate in the life of God. Angels are close to God and live a perfect life. Unlike them, we share in the very life of God because Jesus became man. Becoming man, He grafted the divine life onto our nature. We who have received Christ have eternal life already on this earth. The essence of eternal life consists in receiving the divine nature, becoming joint heirs of the kingdom of God. We have been literally grafted onto Christ. We have the same Spirit as Christ.
Through baptism we were immersed into the death of Christ. In the death of Christ, sin and the devil were overcome. However, through baptism we also share in the Resurrection of Christ, in His new life. We should nourish the new divine life by faith and protect it so as not to lose it. We are on the battlefield, every day exposed to pressures which try to steal this treasure from us. The Apostle Paul says: “We have this treasure in earthen vessels.” Therefore we must be careful. We need protection – fellowship, people who have the true faith and follow Christ in earnest. It is not enough to be baptized. We need to revive by faith what has been given us. We must live by faith as the Word of God says: “The just shall live by faith.” This was true not only about Abraham but it must be true about us too.
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