The Anchor

From the Chaplain

At the beginning of this year, some Senior School students started running a bible study group for themselves. This term I decided to make one for the Middle School students too. We are meeting every fortnight on Tuesday at lunch time. We run it a bit like a youth group, with some games, some food and a chat with Christian themes. So far we have had about seven Year Seven students come along. I gave them some ideas of what they may want to learn about and they all chose to learn more about heaven. 

 

People have many different ideas about heaven, whether there is one, who goes there and what it will be like. I remember thinking once, as a lot of people do, that heaven sounds boring, praising God all the time and just singing. It wasn’t until I lost someone in my life that I thought more about heaven and where this person had gone and what they were doing. I studied more about this and learned quite a few things. 

 

I got the students to write down some questions they had about heaven and I thought I would share some with you: 

  1. Do we wear clothes? Because Adam and Eve didn’t have clothes in the beginning, many people think that we won’t either. Revelation 3:5 tells us that those who belong to Christ will be “dressed in white.” I think this verse eased the minds of the Year Seven students, for them to think that more than likely, we will not be naked in heaven.
  2. Do we eat? Well Jesus ate after he rose from the dead, he shared in fish and bread.  There are also many verses talking about the banquets that are in heaven. It is thought that perhaps there will be no meat in heaven as there is no death, but Jesus did eat fish, so who knows?
  3. Can God die?  Isaiah 40:28 says, ‘Don't you know? Haven't you heard?  The Lord is the everlasting God; he created all the world.’  Here it tells us that God cannot die as he is everlasting.
  4. Are we old (and wrinkly and slow…)?  The bible tells us we will have a new body, ‘who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body,’ Philippians 3:21.  So I don’t think we'll be old and wrinkly in our new, glorious body.

Another interesting question was: Can we fly? Well this question will take a bit of explaining, so I might leave this one until next time… 

 

Mrs Naomi Cooper | Chaplain