We have a tendency to pretend with others and with God about how we're doing and what's going on in our hearts and lives. But God meets us where we're really at and pretending we're somewhere else gets us nowhere. Let God minister to you through his word, his Spirit, and his people by being honest and vulnerable.

Heaven isn't just a far away place where God dwells and where we'll one day go. Heaven is now. God has launched his new creation through Christ and we are agents of that new creation.