You are blind and deaf, dead to God and heavenly things.

Shall blind men grope through the streets of New Jerusalem? You are unacquainted with the simplest elements of spiritual things, for they can only be spiritually discerned and you have no spiritual faculty. You live in a world where everything has been made by the great Lord and yet you do not perceive his hand, so great is your blindness. One example that I found particularly challenging comes from Day 46, “Sinners Could Never Love Heaven.” Spurgeon, speaking to the nonbeliever says: Each day’s reading gives the reader a great deal with which to wrestle. We Shall See God covers a lot of ground in its 50 chapters, addressing everything from a real, physical resurrection body and seeing Christ face-to-face to friendships, the horrors of hell and pretty much everything in between. So it’s only fitting Alcorn’s new book, We Shall See God, would combine the best of both men, featuring lightly edited excerpts from a number of Spurgeon’s sermons on heaven and Alcorn’s own insightful commentary. His book Heaven has, arguably, become the go-to text on the subject for many. Bestselling author Randy Alcorn also understands this. He preached dozens of sermons on heaven that (though difficult to find) remain a great source of inspiration. Indeed, as we come to the final book of the Bible and this amazing picture of the new heavens and the new earth (Rev 21), it seems that the whole point is to tell us to be heavenly minded-because with our focus on the coming kingdom, we will be of the utmost earthly good.Ĭharles Spurgeon understood this well. Yet, when we look at the Scriptures, we frequently find the New Testament authors telling us to keep our focus on heaven. Today it’s really common to say that someone is “too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good.” Their heads are so far in the clouds that they’re not capable of being of any practical use in the here and now.

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