When I was a kid we called it, ‘what goes around, comes
around.’ These days they call it
‘Karma’ – the idea that your kindness or unkindness will find a way back to
you. But a far more ancient idea is that which Jesus put forward when he said,
‘Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on
earth will be loosed in heaven.’
Sure, it sounds rather cryptic – like a lot of stuff he
talked about – but the idea is the same: those things that we bind up here on
earth – like anger, unforgiveness, suffering, discrimination, injustice, and
sickness – those will be bound, powerless, even absent in our eternities.
On the flip side, those things we let loose here on earth,
like love, compassion, peacefulness, kindness, forgiveness, joy, patience, and
goodness – those will populate our eternities and we will enjoy them forever.
Friends, this is our one shot at falling in love with doing
good - serving people, creating value, solving problems, building important
relationships, and doing work that really matters.
If heaven is what you make it, then let’s make it one worth going to.
If heaven is what you make it, then let’s make it one worth going to.