This story comes from Ghana in Africa. It says that way back in the beginning, heaven was so near to
earth that a housewife who was crushing her sweet potatoes into a pulp by hammering them with end of a long pole, kept poking the pole in the bottom of heaven.
God, who
live up there, was not happy with the disturbance. So he complained to the good
lady. But she paid no attention at all and kept right on mashing her sweet
potatoes and prodding into the bottom of heaven.
So the
Lord got angry and shouted down to her, “Because you humans don’t appreciated
my nearness. I’m going to rise so high in the sky that none of you will ever be
able to reach me.”
That is
the African explanation of why we spend our lives trying to get to heaven and
it always seems to be so far away.
Come to
think of it, though, maybe we’re looking in the wrong places. According to the
Scriptures, the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What a perfect place to hide it: very few people look
inside.
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