Under the Parsonage Roof by Althea S. Miller TO HEAVEN - WHOLE M other listened as her daughters talked among themselves. “When Grandmother starts to die she is going to give her bone china to us girls.” “Don’t try to rush Grandmother,” an amused Mother replied. “She is not ‘starting to die’ yet.” “I want to die so I can go to heaven and see Jesus and Bob.” Mother was reminded of how very real heaven has been to her six-year-old daughter ever since the home-going of her big brother. “The Lord will take you to heaven when He wants you there, Ardyth. Heaven is a wonderful place and we should look forward to going there. But as long as our Father keeps us here we must be busy for Him.” “How did He take Bob to heaven?” “He reached down and released Bob’s spirit and took him home.” “They put Bob’s body in a grave. Why didn’t Jesus take his body?” “Because this isn’t God’s time to change our bodies to be like that of the Lord Jesus after He arose from the dead.” “Well, I want to go to heaven whole.” “What do you mean by ‘whole,’ Honey?” “I want Him to take my body when he takes my spirit. I know myself the way I am and I like me,” she finished with a shy smile. “There’s no conceit in our family; you have it all,” Brother Bill ex claimed. “You mean you want to go up with that cast on your arm? You like it?” “No, I don’t like this cast. Don’t you know that if I went up the cast would fall off because my arm would get better on the way up? Mama, can’t I go to heaven whole?” “Darling, I don’t know how it will please the Lord to take you to be with Himself. But it is possible you will go to heaven ‘whole’ if the Lord comes for His Church.” “How can that be?” “God has told us ‘The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:16,17).
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