My Ray Boltz quip in the previous post probably bears some explaining. Ray’s song “Thank You” talks about a person going to heaven and learning about the impact of the little things s/he did. Unfortunately, it comes across in such a way as to make it sound like heaven is about us. People line up to thank us for the work we did. We have a crowd show up to tell us the impact of our good works.

As my wife has been known to say “there are no high fives in heaven.” We’re not going to be congratulating each other on the great stuff we accomplished. That isn’t to say that we won’t be aware of them. I envision us spending eternity recounting what God accomplished in the world. We’ll go over each person’s conversion knowing exactly how rotten they were and how opposed to the truth they were. We’ll be amazed over and over again at how God broke through such hostility and at how much sin Christ bore for that person. All of the good works that person did will be reviewed and God will be glorified since it is he who ordained these works for us from the foundation of the world (Eph 2:10).

So in a way Ray is correct, we will probably one day review what we accomplished and the results. But Ray is wrong in that people won’t be lining up to thank me, they will all be turning to God and praising him for accomplishing his purposes perfectly through fallen and sinful people. It won’t be “Thank you for giving to the Lord” but “Lord God you are amazing that you used such a weak and broken vessel for such glorious purposes!”