CHANGING ADDRESSES:
LEAVING EARTH FOR HEAVEN
The Late Paul Grant
Published in www.GlobalMissiology.org July 2013
Creation was an extrusion
From the eternality of God;
Out of himself and limitless dimensions
Came space, planets, and sod
This world is but a micro-byte
Of the Creator and his worth,
Yet in his intentionality
He had purpose for this earth
Its uniqueness as a planet
Would display the human race
A full reflection of his image,
Of anything less, not a trace
We cannot begin to comprehend
The sheer glory of that creation,
Made for humans with sin untainted
Destined for a sublime vocation
The ‘morning star, son of the dawn’
Succumbed to perfidy,
Expelled from heaven in turn he brought
This virus to humanity[1]
Planet earth with all creation
Groaned with this injury[2],
Astral, spatial, and global realms
Suffered the fall-out from this tragedy
God’s masterpiece was marred
The humanly perfect was demeaned,
Man and woman disabled at Eden
Yet they would be redeemed!
The Master’s plan was the master plan
He created a new creation,
Jesus as God would atone for sin
And initiate a sublime salvation
Believers in Christ comprise the new race
By Holy Spirit power and anointment,
Receiving the powers of the new age[3]
They begin to fulfil their appointment
Believers now are being groomed
For thronal and governing function,
The eternal for them has already come,
Their experience a sublime preparation
For God will present a sight unequalled,
A new heavens and a new earth[4]
Peopled and ruled by those made ready
Through the calling of the new birth
The new creation has been under way
Since that time Jesus rose from the dead,
Its fulness will be seen, its glory displayed
Under Christ its majestic Head
Death has lost its battle and sting[5]
Before us our superannuation,
Dying a good death is only a foyer
Into rewards of predestination
So dying and death is simply a matter
Of transition from the temporal,
A change of address, and transformation
Where the normal is phenomenal
The kingdom to come is immeasurable
Beyond the dimensions of science,
New worlds will exceed the incredible
With Jesus, an eternal alliance
A calling to ministry is a continuum
So no one can ever “retire”,
Service in which we are now engaged
Will be enhanced when we go higher
Daniel was faithful for ninety years
And assured of a personal function
In worlds to come at the end of the days,
A heritage of eternal unction[6]
(Paul E. Grant 1.2007; Revised 5.2007)