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Do you aspire to get to heaven? The essential measure is the one you have just done, so relax. You are a seeker, or you wouldn't be rummaging through the web searching for an answer. The impassable impediment is absolutely no concern in going after God or His salvation.

The most imperative task imaginable is there right in front of everybody. We are separated from our God and we realize it. What will we do about it? Our lives are racing towards death and we recognize it. What could it be like to confront a God we have never known? In the moments after dying you will experience this Reality, but by that time it will be too late to carry out any adjustments. The time to act is right away!

There is truly neither wisdom nor honor in setting this all-encompassing project down: If God may be known, we need to know Him. If He is looking on, He certainly calls for nothing less from us. What praise or recompense should there be for egocentric, unappreciative creatures that exhibit no interest in their Creator? If God can be gotten hold of, we have to find Him. Even if we are not at all curious about the next life, we would be smart to re-connect with One who can make our life down here a heaven and not a hell. What wisdom is there in casting aside any potential source of divine support?

In Biblical terms all of this is unattainable. We are so totally lost, it takes God to "find" us; so entirely blind, it requires God to give us vision; so totally separated, it would take God to restore us. We can not lead ourselves truly out of the spiritual darkness that envelopes us, nor free ourselves sufficiently from the sins that shackle us. Don't let that stop you!

Like coal miners trapped within the bowels of the earth, we can hold fast to hope and send our desperate messages to the surface. We can "grope" our way upwards. We can search out Him whom we can not see. We can cry out to Him whom we can not hear. Not everything is lost, just because we are lost. Take courage from this: Jesus pledged that "All who seek shall find." We can welcome the spiritual "hunt" set before us!

Here is a useful prayer to get you moving: "If you are out there God, I want to discover You. And because Jesus declares that all who search shall find, I'm praying for You to help me search for You with my whole heart. This day I am opening myself to the chance that You are out there and that you can be stumbled on by a tenacious seeker. That's me--I'm fully welcoming the quest!"