Review: Life After Heaven by Steven Musick

Review: Life After Heaven by Steven Musick (with Paul J Pastor)
How My Time in Heaven Can Transform Your Life on Earth

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook (March 7, 2017)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601429886
• ISBN-13: 978-1601429889

I liked this book a lot. Not because it's about near-death-experiences, though. I've read so many near-death experiences books and Jesus encounter stories that, while I love them and they do feed my faith, I'm not generally surprised by them any more. Jesus is always sweet, powerful, with beautiful eyes, and supernaturally good. Which of course, He should be because He is our savior. But after a while, it's the same old thing. So one needs to read these books for something other the recounting of the experience.

In this case, this book's uniqueness is it's depiction of a sick person who endured a long sickness until he was healed. That is what really blessed me in this book. I like any book which shows that someone can be healed even after a long illness.

Not all of us can endure long illnesses in a fairly good mood. This author managed. And, although many sick Christians wish to die in order to live with Jesus in heaven, Steven Musick endured life even though he wanted to die because he had already seen Jesus in heaven.

I won't say how he became sick. But after his illness, he died. Jesus met him and Jesus is "okay" and all the bad things in Musick's life was made "okay" or blessed into okayness by a super-understanding and super-loving Jesus. (yes, I kinda wish the author didn't use the word "okay" to describe the healing presence of Jesus when Jesus healed his soul. It just feels so touchy-feely. The book's a great book, an inspirational read but... that "okay" kinda made me cringe.)

Returning from heaven was difficult for Musick, but his experiences there continued to affect his life after he returned to his ill body. The love, power, and acceptance he saw when he walked with Jesus made him realize that heaven is always with us. The kingdom of God is everpresent and wishing to touch and overflow in our life on earth. There are few books that convey what the kingdom of God is as well as this book. In fact, there are very few books which actually try to show what the gospel of the kingdom is. This book does a good job.

 I recommend this book highly. I received this book free and without charge in exchange for a fair and honest review.