Roast Beef in Heaven

Troy’s grandma Marie made the best roast beef ever.  She used to cook it for me on my birthday, which makes me smile when I think about it. About three years ago she told me how to make it, but my first attempt was a failure.  She knew I could not be trusted to make the beef alone, so she told me the next time I attempted to try her recipe, I should invite her over and she’d show me how do make it (the correct way!!!) Soon after my failed attempt, I bought another roast and stuck it in the freezer, but I never had the chance to invite her over.  She died a few weeks later.  The only thing I had left was the memory of those verbal directions she had given me. So I set out in a desperate attempt to get the recipe correct.

God’s word is like that.  He used to be here on earth telling others about God and teaching them how to enter the kingdom of heaven.  But then He ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of God.  He will come back one day, but until He does, He left us with instructions on how we should live until He returns. Sometimes God’s instructions are hard to hear and difficult to follow. We may not get everything right on this journey called life, but if we stay in His word and follow God’s instructions as closely as we can, God will bless our efforts.  And then one day when we wake up in heaven, we will take the top off the roast beef pan and God will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”