A long, long time ago there was no earth, no people, no sky, no animals; nothing......except God. And He was enough. Vast and powerful, Beautiful and perfect. One day He decided to create a being that would be also big, strong, powerful and beautiful. This was an angel and He made many angels and they all lived together so perfectly. And the angels loved nothing more than to tell God how much they love Him and be with Him - friends of God.
But one day, one of the most powerful and beautiful angels had a new thought. He thought he was just as strong and powerful and perfect as God. He forgot that He was created by God and owed his very life to God. And by thinking these things, he became an enemy of God and God had no choice but to make Him leave. He became known as the devil.
After that, God decided to create a little world that would become the home for a new creature. This time the creature would not be so powerful and strong but still much like God himself. That was man. The devil hated the man because God loved him and the devil hated God and all friends of God.
God gave man a choice: would he be a friend to God or would he turn his back on God and join the devil in his hatred?
Can you believe it? The man chose to listen to the devil's lies and became an enemy of God. There is a good reason that the devil is called the father of lies. He is the biggest liar this world has ever known. Ever since then, all children ever born on this earth are born as natural enemies of God with rebellious hearts towards Him. And the devil thought he won. He had ruined God's new creation.
But God had an amazing plan. He wanted to give these children a chance to know Him and choose to become His friend instead. But how could He do that when these children had hearts that were proud and full of lies and bad things. God decided that He would send His only Son to this earth and be punished for all the sins of all the people that would ever live. His Son would show the people the heart of God; goodness, kindness, love. And so He showed people how to reach God. When people realize that the Son paid the price so we could be free to love God, we can accept it as truth and accept Him as our friend. Then we become friends of God and He sees us as if we had never had bad hearts.
As long as we live on earth we will struggle between doing what is right and believing the lies of the devil and doing what is wrong. But God has found a way to be with us and help us if we are willing to admit we are wrong and determine in our hearts to do what is right. He loves nothing more than to help His children if they look for help.
One day, all the people who have chosen not to be friends of God will be separated from God forever along with all that is beautiful, good and perfect. For those people, the earth will be as close to heaven as they will ever get because there is still some goodness and and some beauty here. But it is not perfect and there is much that is bad and ugly here too. But can you imagine everything bad and ugly with not a bit of goodness and beauty?
But all the people who have become friends of God will one day join Him in the beautiful place where God is. It will be so much better than anything we can imagine. It will be incredible and there will be no tears, no sadness, no ugliness, no lies, no hatred; not one bit of badness. We like to think on earth that we can do anything we put our minds and hearts too. We can only do so much. But in heaven there will be no limits to what is possible. It will be amazing and truly we will live happily ever after.
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