Just last week, I finished a book "Heaven is for real". The book shared about a boy's testimony of seeing heaven when he was 3.5 years old. Over many conversations for a few years, his parents slowly discovered the things that their son has seen and experienced in heaven.
One of the conversations the boy and his Dad had went like this:
"Did you have wings?" I (the Dad) asked.
"Yeah, but mine weren't very big." He looked a little glum when he said this.
"Okay... did you walk places or did you fly?"
"We flew. Well, all except for Jesus. He was the only one in heaven who didn't have wings. Jesus just went up and down like an elevator."
The book of Acts flashed into my head, the scene of Jesus' ascension, when Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses, that they would tell people all over the world about him. After he said this, the Scripture says, Jesus "was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
Jesus went up. And will come down. Without wings. To a kid, that could look like an elevator.
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Do you see the amazing similarity in perspective between the boy (in the book) and the girl (my church friend's daughter)?
Elevator = Lift!
I believe that God comforts this 4-year old girl by assuring her that Jesus himself has brought Charlene up to heaven. And when my friend told her daughter that my church friend's mother had passed away, the girl reminded her mother that they (the deceased) will see Charlene.
Wow, the child-like faith of a 4-year old.
Thank you Jesus for once again reaffirming us that You brought Charlene up to heaven.
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