Imagine Leaving Heaven For This Place!

I started thinking about Heaven today.  Thinking that from the moment we become a believer, we start working toward Heaven.  "Store up your treasures in Heaven....", "Great is your reward in Heaven....".  For us, the final victory is reaching Heaven!  This is a place that we don't know a lot about, except that John the Beloved got a glimpse of it and wrote the book of Revelation for us to have a sneak peak.  We sing songs and talk about walking the streets of gold in Heaven, worshipping the Son around the throne of Heaven, laying our crowns at the feet of the Jesus in Heaven.  Just typing it makes me pray, "Come Lord, come quickly!"  

So, in thinking about Heaven, I tried to IMAGINE what it could have been like for Jesus, the creator of Heaven, to willingly leave Heaven and come to dwell with us on earth.  Heaven is perfect!  Earth certainly isn't.  Not only did He have to leave this place beyond our IMAGINATIONS, but He took up the clothes of man.  God Himself zipped up in a tiny baby's flesh.  He really didn't get any special privileges, you know.  In fact, He and the Father decided that He would be common, ordinary, even poor by the world's standards.  Oh, and before He got to return to Heaven, His own people nailed him to a rugged cross.  It was part of the plan of redemption, the price for OUR sin.  In fact, He WAS SIN!  Every sin you can think of...the really bad ones we don't even like to let ourselves imagine.  He was so filthy when every sin of every man was laid upon his shoulders, that God the Father had to turn His back from him until the price was paid.  And I know, as many of you do, that after He had completed the will of His Father here, He went back to prepare a home for us in Heaven.  He was only out of Heaven for 30 something years.  But just to let myself ponder, imagine, what it must have been like to KNOW what Heaven is like and leave it just for you and me, so we could go there and live there FOREVER!  WOW!  Just another way I can acknowledge what an AMAZING thing Jesus did for us.  I can hardly IMAGINE it...