The barriers to Heaven in 21st century America aren’t on the outside, but on the inside. Jesus is tapping at the window, telling us not that the “times of refreshment” (3:19) are on the way, but that they have arrived, and the proof is Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.

God knows all the opportunities we missed, for sure, but he also knows all the ones we didn’t, the ones that opened our eyes and changed our minds, the ones that we go to Church and say Thank You for, Sabbath after Sabbath, year after year. Those are the ones we talk about in the hope that our experience may help a partner, sibling, neighbor, friend, or boss.