Well, there are a bunch of end-of-life questions that have been asked and answered on the podcast

over the years. Episodes I tried to catalog in the APJ book, fittingly at the very end of the book

on pages 441 to 449. In fact, it's the question, how do I know if I'm ready for heaven?

That's how the whole book ends. How do I know I'm ready for heaven? I intentionally wanted to end with that question and that

episode because it's one of my favorites ever on the podcast. Meditating on heaven is so important for us.

It's a discipline we need. I remember the late, great J.I. Packer once telling me and a few friends

that were with me that he made it a common practice to walk the streets of his neighborhood

in Vancouver just to meditate on the glories of heaven. Amazing. Well, he's there now, along with his

wife, in the joyful presence of our Savior.

But I feel like a younger generation, myself, still needs to reclaim this practice or something like it.

And while that relates to a question today from an anonymous young woman, Pastor John, when I think about going to heaven one day, I get most excited about seeing my parents,

grandparents, and possibly pets.

I know this is wrong.

I should be most excited about seeing Jesus.

What do I need to confess and how do I overcome this?

Thank you.

I have six, no, seven.

I think I have seven practical suggestions that I hope will move you beyond this condition of loving parents more than Christ. Now, someone might object right here and say,

well, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, she didn't say that.

She didn't say she loved her parents more than Christ.

She said she was more excited about seeing them

than she is about seeing Christ.

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