Big Difference

There are “warm pink fuzzies” feelings. And there are “Wow! Warm Pink Fuzzies with Goosebumps!” What’s the difference?

You might get “warm pink fuzzies” when handed your best friend’s cute little baby grandson or granddaughter. That’s nice. But you’re more apt to feel “Wow! Warm Pink Fuzzies with Goosebumps!” when after hours of labor, you look into your own baby son’s or daughter’s tiny face and see traces of yourself and your beloved spouse. Not “Nice.” It’s “Sha-bang!”

Riding a roller coaster all by yourself is a thrill. But riding that same roller coaster alongside your screaming best friend or lover is a “Wow!” that you’ll remember forever.

Every once in a while, you get that perfect cup of coffee. Or that hamburger that stands above the rest. Or maybe a “Job well done” from the boss. All “warm pink fuzzies.”

If we had nothing but peak “highs” every minute of every day, we would soon weary of them, taking them for granted. They would be the “norm,” the routine.

Our relationship with Yehohwah Jehovah God and Jesus Christ is no exception. We might do everything right for a week: reading our Bible, praying to Our Lord, serving God and man, attending church. All we might feel in return is “warm pink fuzzies.”

But then there are those special occasions. While doing the same Bible reading, praying, serving God and man, attending church, suddenly, as if out of nowhere, “Kapow! Wow! Warm Pink Fuzzies with Goosebumps” get all over you.

Those times are the icing on the cake that makes life not only worth living, but exciting.

In Philippians 4:11-12, Apostle Paul confessed, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things.” So we thank God for being with us during the plain and ordinary days, while we do what we’re supposed to without receiving a significant amount of feedback from Him. And we thank God for the little “warm pink fuzzies.”

But we especially thank God for the “Wow! Warm Pink Fuzzies with Goosebumps!”

Those moments assure us of our relationship with our God, and make us want to draw even closer. And if we while enjoying those moments, we feel the guilty tug from God’s Holy Spirit that we have stepped out of line and a bit away from God, we respond immediately to restore that closeness.

After those “Wow!” moments with God, I feel that I just experienced an example of the Heaven that John wrote about in Revelation 4:1-11. “Behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and one sat on the throne. ...And there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. ...And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four [angelic creatures]: ...and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. ...Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

When we make it to Heaven, “As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15:49). We will be “equal unto the angels” (Luke 20:36). We’ll be “blown away” by Heaven’s sights and sounds and new people to meet and new things to do every day. It will never be “Ho, hum” unexciting, especially when compared to what it’s been like down here during our natural lifetimes.