Something you should know about you

Lately (this weekend) I've been thinking a bit about heaven and hell. The judgement house that I went to on friday night with the youth group was pretty cheesey with a few scary parts, mostly hell was scary. It didn't make me question my salvation, rather, it got me thinking about the state of heaven and hell. I mean I like to joke around about them both. You've probably heard me say things like in my version of heaven we'll all eat chicken fingers, David Crowder will lead worship, and the gamecocks will win every single game eternally. Perfection for me. I also describe the devil as being sunburned and wearing an orange t-shirt with a huge tiger paw and everyone eternally sucks at football. Scary. As we all talked about it for a bit in bible study, I got on a mini rant and said how I cant wait for everyone's attention to be on Jesus. I can't wait for the focus to stop being on ourselves. My serious side beleives that I wont care about anything else when I get there because I'll finally get to kick back with Jesus. Us Christians won't be seeking attention from anyone else or for any reason ever again. Only Jesus will matter and He'll get the eternal attention and glory he deserves. Man does He deserve it. I'm reading through a completely rad book called "Don't waste your life" by John Piper and in chapter 2 he talks about glorifying God and delighting in God and what that means. He talks about how alot of people ask, "Why would God be so concerned with us if the universe is so huge?" I mean we are so insignificant compared to all the galaxies and stars and hugeness floating out there beyond us somewhere. But Piper says, "Beneath this question is a fundamental failure to see what the universe is about. It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man." Holy crap. I've never even thought about that, because when I think about the greatness and bigness of God I always think about it in terms of myself. Dang it. It's like going out to the Grand Canyon but instead of getting to stare at all it's beauty, we get to the top and get put in a room full of mirrors. Wouldn't that suck? You are small and you want too much attention for yourself. That's what God thinks sometimes. In heaven we won't focus on ourselves or people. Jesus will be too much awesome to even handle. bring it.