STARGATE

By Rick Mathes

Matthew 3:2 (NASB77) ² ” Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

There is a famous movie and follow-up TV series titled Stargate. It is an ancient Egyptian arch with the entry, a wall of shimmering water. What the film adventurers do is bravely step in and through this glistening wall into another whole new world. Well, I love to daydream about stepping through the Gate into heaven. I know this is not biblically described as a Stargate to glory but this imagery serves the purpose of satisfying my imagination. I pretend I am stepping through that wall of water into glory and seeing Jesus and the New Jerusalem.

This amazing vision of stepping into glory was trumped by a real vision I had one night. I was on my knees in the pitch black darkness of my bedroom repenting of my sins back to the day I was born! I wanted to attain a new level of holiness not like anything I had ever reached to before.

Suddenly, I burst into an expanse of blue sky with wispy clouds that I could sense were alive. I was aware of all my body parts but I couldn’t see them. I just knew I was there in a body. I hung on nothing but this beautiful sky.

Have you ever been totally immersed under water? They you must know what it is like to be fully encompassed by liquid. Well, that was my experience except the liquid was love. I can’t explain it any other way.

Now just as I was basking in this wonderful feeling, it got much better!

I became love.

That’s right, like sponge absorbing water I soaked in love completely. I became love! This is the best I can describe this “taste of heave.” I know that the Lord is love and he is as near as a repentant prayer.

You may not have this sampling of His glory a I had. Your reward may be entirely different and in fact you may not feel anything at all this side of Stargate as I did. But rest assured that if you repent and step through the Gate, the reward of heaven will be yours.

You will discover that heaven is the fellowship of the love the Holy Spirit flows between the Father and the Son. Repent and you will know you know the Lord is nearer than you thought!