"Heaven Here - Then I can enter into heaven now, this moment! e'en while in this fleshly frame if I'll but spurn, eschew, firm disavow each troubled thought, regardless of its claim"

Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures

January 3 ~

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life ... bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ...
1 Jn.5:11-12 (RSV); 2 Cor.10:5 (KJV)

Heaven Here

Then I can enter into heaven now
- this moment! - e'en while in this fleshly frame
if I'll but spurn, eschew, firm disavow
each troubled thought, regardless of its claim,
its logic justifying fear, concern,
dislike, unlove. If I refuse to heed,
identify with each such thought, and turn
at once to Thee, Lord, looking to be freed
completely from it, looking unto Thee
to give me refuge in Thy warmth, in Thine
Own Presence ... seeking Thee, then ... suddenly
I find I am in heaven's peace of mind.
I'm there (though here): immersed, O Lord, in Thee:
from Self's dark cell delivered and made free.

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This is what the Lord says: ... "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you" ... "I have told you all this so that you may find your peace in me" ... You must clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ ...
Jer.29:10,13,14 (NIV); Jn.16:33 (JBP); Rom.13:14 (Bar).

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