You’re the Closest To Heaven that I’ll Ever Be

Yes that is right, I am writing another blog. I know its shocking. There will be months between posts, and then there will be weeks like this where I write multiple ones over the course of a couple of days. Don’t worry the world isn’t coming to an end (as far as i know). So to what I was going to write about before you had a minor flip out.

Well I have been thinking recently (sometimes thinking can be a good thing). And I have thought who are the 5 people I would want to meet in Heaven if I had to choose right now. And well this is a tough decision, but here I’m going to give a go at it.

Habakkuk: Yes I said Habakkuk. You know that guy who wrote the book of that tiny book of the Bible in the Old Testament. I know most people would say why not Isaiah or Jeremiah or somebody big like that. My response is simple, go read Habakkuk 3 and tell me that you wouldn’t want to meet this dude. I mean God tells him that He is going to destroy the Israelites and give them over to the Assyrians. And after all this Habakkuk doesn’t whine and complain, but instead says “yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.” That is such a great response to calamity and honestly I would just sit and ask Habakkuk what it was like to get the inside on what was about to happen and how he was able to then praise God through it all.

Abe Lincoln: Who doesn’t want to meet Abe Lincoln? I mean cmon now, he is one of the coolest presidents ever. But in all reality, he is my 2nd favorite president ever (sorry Abe). I would love to talk with him though and get to know what it was like to have to try and govern a country that was in such turmoil. I would also like to discuss with him the whole assassination thing. I mean I think he got a bad rap. I’m sure if he could go back and do it over again he would have put a guard or something outside his booth or at least be aware of the things that were around him instead of focusing on the play. C’mon Abe, thats bush league!

Andrew Jackson: Like I said Abe isn’t my favorite president. This guy is. So sticking with the whole presidential thing, I would want to meet him as well. This dude was such a great president. I mean people hated him, but he got the job done. I respect him for this, plus he wasn’t afraid to beat people up on occasion. There is one story of a guy attempting to assassinate him and the guns misfired, so Jackson used his cane to beat the crap out of the guy. Such an awesome president, some people who want to be president need to learn from him and emulate this man right here.

John: You know that guy who wrote John, and 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, and Revelation. Yea, that John. I would again just love to sit and listen to him talk. I mean he seemed like he had it all together from what I can get from my Bible. He was one of Jesus’ favorite disciples, and that must have been a huge deal. Honestly though, unlike most people, I don’t think this made John cocky or arrogant. What I get from John is a very big case of humility, which is why I would love to just sit and talk with him and fellowship with him. Imagine having him as your pastor? That would be nuts. I mean just reading his books I feel like I already know John, he is really that personable to me. I really think that our conversation would last for awhile, and I wouldn’t do much talking in it. Think about it, getting every miracle Jesus ever did from this guy would be awesome.

Babe Ruth: I’m a sports guy, so of course a sports phenom would have to make my list of who I want to talk to when I get to heaven. This would be another great talk I believe. I would deff ask him if he thinks he could have hit as many homeruns as Barry Bonds had he not started as a pitcher. I would also ask him what he would have done had he been alive when Hank Aaron broke his record. I would like to think that the Babe would have congratulated him at home plate. I would also love to ask him if he would have stopped smoking and started eating healthier had he realized it would have shortened his Baseball days. I mean think about it, an in shape Babe Ruth would still hold the all time homerun record in my opinion. He would be one of the guys that I would just sit and ask him about what it was like playing in his day and what he thought of steroids and just being able to talk the game of baseball with him. I would deff ask him if he thought he could have been better than Cy Young had he stuck with pitching (I mean he was a heck of a pitcher). Overall I think me and Babe would have a nice long chat about how great baseball is, and then we would argue who would be on our All Time team (Babe would put all these old timers on there… I mean Cy was good, but you got to start Satchel Paige no matter what)

So there it is, the 5 people that I would want to talk to when I got to heaven. Granted there are like a billion more people that I would want to talk to as well, but hey I didn’t have that much room and plus I knew if I went any longer than 5 people would start rioting over how long my blog post was. So hope you enjoyed it and hope it got you thinking of who you would talk to in Heaven

-Th3rd