As I was studying at my home office this week, I noticed a wasp had flown into the room.  My air conditioner was on the fritz so I had all the doors and windows open and the fans running.  This wasp soon found an open window.  I am sure it thought that this was an escape from this strange new world it had flown into but when it got to the window it was stopped short by the screen.

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  It began to walk back and forth on the screen, trying to find a way through to the other side.  Every once in a while it would fly a few inches off of the screen only to return again to its confinement.  I glanced up now and then to witness this exercise in futility for a period of at least 4 hours.  If only it would fly out into this vast space within the house, it could find freedom in the same path that it entered the house.  It was missing a whole new world that it could be exploring.  It could see and hear and smell the great outdoors through the screen, but it couldn't make it through.

As I was driving to work the next morning, the Lord made me realize that many Christ followers miss so much of what He has for us because we want to go back to the life we knew before we met Him.  So many believers hang out just on this side of the line of salvation and do not explore the vast richness of His Kingdom.  We look back and see the things of this world and we do not venture far from them.  There is nothing that can take our salvation away, (we can't get back through the screen) but we miss God's best when we desire the world over Him.

1 John 2:15-17 says, "Do not love the world or anything in the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life - comes not from the Father but from the world.  The world and its desires pass aways, but the one who does the will of the Father lives forever."

I looked in that window the next day and found that the wasp had died trying to get out.  If you do not love the Father and you would rather strive after the things of this world, then don't call yourself a Christian.  If you don't enjoy worshiping Him on this earth, then I don't believe that Heaven is going to be very enjoyable for you either.