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The Only People Who Will Go to Heaven

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I have become convinced that the only people who will go to heaven at the end of this life are people who want God.   Heaven is God's home.   It is filled with Him.   If we don't want God, we wouldn't feel at home there.   In fact, if we don't want Him, we probably wouldn't even notice His presence, and the greatest pleasure of heaven would be lost to us. It is lost to us now.   We were created for fellowship with God, and when Adam and Eve broke that relationship by their rebellion against His authority, that relationship was lost to them, and to all of us who are their descendants. They lost the joy, and eventually even the awareness, of His presence.   And they passed that loss on to us.   God's presence is still here.   He is everywhere, touching us with His love. He touches us in the sunlight, and in all things that give pleasure on this earth; He gives us every breath we breathe.   But in our natural state, we go about our lives seeing on