A while back, I was sharing a meal with someone during which I wanted to ask them to fulfill a very important responsibility. I was asking this person because I trusted them and had a very high view of them.

After some small talk, I said the following words: “The reason I asked you to come over today is because I have something I want to share with you”. There was an immediate tenseness in the air. An instantaneous hesitation. A palpable uneasiness. An expectancy that I had asked this person to share a meal with me because I had something bad to share with them. After learning that I wanted to bless them and not curse them, they relaxed and we had a good time together.

But what they had experienced was what all of us in life have experience at one point in time or another and that is “Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop”.

You’ve been there haven’t you? I know I have. I’ve been in situations where someone has praised me with the words “There’s no one I’d rather have doing that job than you”. I’ve also been told “I wouldn’t have brought you along this far if I thought you were going to fail”. And yet despite those words, in the end apparently, there was someone else they would rather have doing my job or evidently someone’s opinion changed where they were almost certain I was going to fail and had failed.

As I continued my devotional reading in Alcorn’s Heaven, I came across this paragraph:

We’ll be able to relax in Heaven. The other shoe will never drop. No skeletons will fall out of our closets. Christ bore every one of our sins. He paid the ultimate price so that we would forever be free from sin–and the fear of sin. All barriers between us and him will be forever gone.

Does that paragraph excite you? Does that paragraph make your mouth water? Do you see the hope in those words? In Heaven, with Jesus, we’ll never have to experience the other shoe dropping. We’ll never have to live in fear of that next meeting where it all may go wrong. We’ll never have to wonder what someone is truly thinking of us. We’ll never have to second guess whether relationships are pure or defiled. We’ll never have to experience the pain of someone else’s un-forgiveness or lack of mercy. We’ll never have to wonder whether we’ve fully had the price for our sin paid or whether there’s more hurt left to experience.

It will all be over and we’ll finally be able to breathe deeply and know that we’ll be in the presence of Jesus forever and that because of His death on the cross, there are no more shoes to drop. That’s a magnificent truth about Heaven to ponder.