{"id":27822,"date":"2019-09-13T00:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=27822"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:32:48","slug":"what-you-take-to-heaven-is-what-you-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/what-you-take-to-heaven-is-what-you-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Take To Heaven Is What You Really Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

All spiritual progress, big or \u201csmall,\u201d is important. Don’t ever be discouraged. Remember always that we\u2019re spiritual beings having a physical experience. <\/span><\/p>\n

Your spiritual nature is who you really are. <\/span><\/p>\n

Up there at the gate of Heaven,<\/span> the Lord will remove what is not your fault. You don\u2019t bring embarrassment. (How could you be embarrassed in a place where everyone not only knows but understands everything about you?) You don\u2019t take loneliness. (How could you be lonely in a place where there are throngs of relatives?) You don\u2019t bring depression. (It would be impossible to be depressed in a place of such light.) You don\u2019t bring fright. (In Heaven, and even purgatory, the devil can no longer reach you.) <\/span><\/p>\n

And you will not bring worry because now you know there\u2019s nothing whatsoever to fret about. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

There is no apprehension<\/span> of dying for the obvious reason that there is no longer death. (This we will finally see for ourselves!)<\/span><\/p>\n

When we endure we transcend. As a man named Alex Hermosillo of Tempe, Arizona, recounted after he \u201cflat-lined\u201d: \u201cI began to fly through the clouds, moving fast, broke through the clouds, going to a destination quickly and all of my fear, shame, and grief that I had experienced on earth was just pulled right out of me. It was the most joyous time of my entire life,\u201d he said, as he encountered many people he knew in this place where the soul now \u201cemanates light.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEach one had a different amount of light, some had so much light it was like looking into the sun; others had very little light, but were right there,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe light was a reflection<\/span> of who they were on earth, so if an individual was\u00a0judgmental, hateful, had vanity and ego, they had a little bit of light. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Those who were kind, loving, helped others in their community, just good souls, they were shining brighter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anything that diminishes love will be a burden; burdens darken — here and in the hereafter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA high spiritual being<\/span> had graded me and there were two other spiritual beings, one on my right,\u201d recalls another man, G. Gordon Allen, a formerly wealthy financial adviser from Seattle who succumbed in 1993 (and radically altered his life after). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe thought was communicated to me that all the skills and all the talents that I had been given were for a purpose greater than what I had used them for, that there had been another purpose and they should now be applied to that purpose. That\u2019s the moment my life changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Your gifts were given to serve God and others — in whatever way has been placed before you. Just do your best at whatever it is God sets in your path. Do nothing with the energy of selfishness.<\/p>\n

We don’t want to leave this life with selfish ambition. Do everything with \u201cpurity of intention\u201d and you will achieve elevated vision. Earth is a place of adversity. It is to develop our spiritual \u201cmuscles.\u201d Each time we transcend a difficulty, we grow stronger. Nothing purifies more than sending love to those who attack you. Nothing makes us brighter than love and humility.<\/p>\n

Word at those and you should have no fear of death. God simply wants you to\u00a0try<\/em>\u00a0with all your might.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just so focused on my career that I was letting what\u2019s really important fall by the wayside,\u201d said a lawyer who had the same experience. \u201cGod loves you more than you\u2019ve ever known and knows your circumstances, what you\u2019re going through. I used to wake up with a knot in my stomach. I wake up now with joy in my heart. I understand now what\u2019s really important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

[adapted from What You Take To Heaven]<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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