What will we take to heaven....?

[Hobie]

I was thinking over all the things that we have to get rid of before we go to heaven and they were too numerous, jealousy, envy, pride, anger, just keep going from there.

So then I turned it around and went over what we truly need to have to take with us to heaven and came across what seems to stand out, one of which of course is our physical bodies which will be transformed and what David prayed for..
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

So defects of character must be repented of and overcome through the grace of Christ, and a clean heart and right spirit come withing us for the saints to take to heaven. The Bible says it in many different ways but here is my favorite....

1 Corinthians 13:1-10
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

What are the other things we will take....?

 

[Josheb]

I was thinking over all the things that we have to get rid of before we go to heaven and they were too numerous, jealousy, envy, pride, anger, just keep going from there.

So then I turned it around and went over what we truly need to have to take with us to heaven and came across what seems to stand out, one of which of course is our physical bodies which will be transformed and what David prayed for..
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

So defects of character must be repented of and overcome through the grace of Christ, and a clean heart and right spirit come withing us for the saints to take to heaven. The Bible says it in many different ways but here is my favorite....

1 Corinthians 13:1-10
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

What are the other things we will take....?

About how old are you, @Hobie?

 

[Two-Edged Sword]

Despite our best sanctification here (we should always be aiming towards the unattainable perfect holiness), the best we can acquire if we keep all commandments is a "unprofitable servant" (Luke 17:10) so I don't think we will have anything "worthy of heaven" to take with us.

When we receive our new bodies fashioned like Christ's (Philippians 3:20, 1 John 3:2) perhaps we will be of a whole new mind as well, suitable for heaven, cleansed from all our flesh and worldly thoughts, and the things of this earth will no longer be remembered by us (Isaiah 65:17).