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Post by baydoll on Mar 12, 2014 11:58:32 GMT -5
I came across this old joke recently (joke to follow) and it got me thinking: will there be baseball in heaven? And I'm not talking about the Pro Baseball games of today just the ordinary sandlot baseball Fields of Dream kind of thing we used to play as kids on a nice summer night. So what are your thoughts? Will there be things like baseball in heaven? Tennis? Even bowling in heaven?
Anyway, here's the joke (not in the least Theologically correct but still funny) :
Two old men, Abe and Sol, sit on a park bench feeding pigeons and talking about baseball. Abe turns to Sol and asks, "Do you think there's baseball in Heaven?"
Sol thinks about it for a minute and replies, "I dunno. But let's make a deal -- if I die first, I'll come back and tell you if there's baseball in Heaven, and if you die first, you do the same."
They shake on it and sadly, a few months later, poor Abe passes on. Soon afterward, Sol sits in the park feeding the pigeons by himself and hears a voice whisper, "Sol... Sol... ."
Sol responds, "Abe! Is that you?"
"Yes it is, Sol," whispers Abe's ghost.
Sol, still amazed, asks, "So, is there baseball in Heaven?"
"Well," says Abe, "I've got good news and bad news."
"Gimme the good news first," says Sol.
Abe says, "Well, there is baseball in Heaven."
Sol says, "That's great! What news could be bad enough to ruin that?"
Abe sighs and whispers, "You're pitching on Friday."
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 12, 2014 15:37:45 GMT -5
If you love baseball, yes, you'll be able to play in heaven. God isn't out to take anything good away from us (you don't do someone you love that way), only that which is evil and sinful: “No good thing does the Lord withhold from those who walk uprightly.” ~Psalm 84:11 Charles Stanley said something many years ago which I've never forgotten, and which blesses me more and more every time I think about it: "Heaven is a place where everything is so perfect that not even God can improve on it."
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Post by baydoll on Mar 13, 2014 7:56:55 GMT -5
I hope so! That is just one of the many things I miss from my childhood. I would love to be able to do those things again like playing baseball with a bunch of my friends, riding my bike, playing touch football, to name a few. Just plain old running around being a kid again. I love that quote of Dr. Stanley's. Here's some more quotes (on heaven): Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting in the earth: waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. I suppose that our whole present life, looked back on from there, will seem only a drowsy half-waking. We are here in the land of dreams. But cock-crow is coming. C. S. Lewis Collected Letters, to Mary Willis Shelburne, 28 June. 1963 Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters. C. S. Lewis The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon. Joni Eareckson Tada Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for. Author: Elisabeth Elliot “The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.” ― Randy Alcorn, Heaven “For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a world where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.” ― Randy Alcorn, Heaven “If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.” ― Randy Alcorn, Heaven
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 13, 2014 15:02:38 GMT -5
I don't have kids (except the furry kind), but when I had some little girls I sponsored through CCF years ago - and even more recently when I started doing the Operation Christmas Child boxes - I would get so excited and try to think of anything I could that would make those kids happy, even if it was just for a minute. If I could feel that way about kids I didn't even know, how must the Lord feel about those whom He died for and who love Him? Seriously - can you see Jesus saying, "No, sorry Sheryl, but I died for you and that's enough...no, you can't play baseball." No, He gave us the greatest gift of all...He won't withhold the lesser!
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? - Romans 8:32
In thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. - Psalm 16:11
You know, people have a "concentration camp" view of heaven: "OK everyone, line up, pick up your white robe and harp, give up your unique identity which includes everything you love and cherish and enjoy doing, and get to your eternal worship service!" NO! God has created heaven with our eternal pleasure in mind, and - just as people derive great joy in doing things for those whom they love on earth - God's joy is going to be in seeing His kids happy! And in return we'll praise Him forever for what He's done...
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Post by baydoll on Mar 15, 2014 7:18:14 GMT -5
Amen and amen!!! That is just so freaking awesome I just had to post it again! Even though we'll probably all have mature glorified bodies in heaven I believe we'll get to do all the things that we loved doing here when we were kids but grew out of when we got older, playing baseball if you enjoyed that, or playing golf ( can you imagine the golf courses in heaven!!! woah! ) tag football, tennis, whatever. I can't wait!!!!
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Post by PrisonerOfHope on Mar 15, 2014 13:48:55 GMT -5
My pastor from Hawaii said he hoped he could play golf in heaven, and you know what I told him? (Perhaps under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit - who knows?) - "People think it's fun traveling all over the world to play golf here on earth, but can you imagine playing golf on different planets, with different gravitational fields? That'll be a real challenge!" I want to go sky diving, and surfing, and do all kinds of stuff....and if my 'chute doesn't open or something, hey, no problem! I'll just get up and walk away!
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