A Treatise of Conversing in Heaven and Walking with God
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For our conversation is in heaven. With this single line, the apostle Paul defines the whole of the Christian life.
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For our conversation is in heaven. With this single line, the apostle Paul defines the whole of the Christian life.
In A Treatise of Conversing in Heaven and Walking with God, Jeremiah Burroughs unfolds the rich biblical truth that the Christian’s “conversation” – his manner of life, aims, and affections – is to be heavenly even now. Drawing from Philippians 3:20, Burroughs shows that believers are citizens of heaven, called to walk with God in daily communion, holy conduct, and joyful anticipation of eternity.
With a caring heart and biblical clarity, Burroughs exposes the emptiness of earthly-minded living and presses the soul upward – to delight in God, to trade for eternal riches, and to order every aspect of life by the laws of heaven. He explains how heavenly-mindedness shapes thought, worship, obedience, suffering, contentment, fellowship, and even death itself.
This work is both deeply devotional and thoroughly practical. It comforts weary believers, challenges complacent professors, and calls every Christian to examine where their true home lies. Written with the heartfelt depth for which the Puritans are known, this treatise invites readers not merely to think about heaven – but to begin living there now.
A timeless call to holiness, communion, and eternal perspective, this book remains as urgent today as when it was first published.
About the Author
Jeremiah Burroughs (1599–1646) was a faithful minister of the gospel, member of the Westminster Assembly, and one of the most beloved preachers of the English Puritan era. His writings, including The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment and Gospel Revelation, continue to nourish believers with timeless, biblical wisdom.
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1 review for A Treatise of Conversing in Heaven and Walking with God
With so much darkness, pain and dissension in today’s world, reading this book brought a ray of (heavenly) light. Burroughs encourages believers to look upward in their daily lives. I found this statement particularly uplifting, “Every enjoyment in this life should raise our thoughts toward heaven and the life to come. If we see light, we think of the glorious light of heaven and the inheritance of the saints in light. If we taste sweetness in any earthly thing, we say, “If this is sweet, how much more is heaven and God Himself who is the fountain of all good things!” To use earthly things for heavenly contemplation is a heavenly conversation.” Or “You who are traders and go to the Exchange and sell large amounts, you receive only a small payment now. But there is a promise that you will receive great sums of money later. So those who are traders for heaven have some earnest that they are contented with for the present: the firstfruits of the Spirit or perhaps a bare promise from Christ. Yet they know that this promise binds the whole bargain, and they confidently wait for the full payment when they arrive in heaven.
Burroughs goes on to tackle the subject of keeping a heavenly focus during trials we have while here on earth, “Do not draw the wrong conclusion that God does not love you because He keeps you so low and you bear crosses that others do not. Oh! That is not true! It is because He does love you that He gathers your hearts to heaven and weans you from the world. God wants you to long to be with Him in heaven and wants the full stream of your affections to run after those things you will have with Him in heaven. That is the correct use you are to make of those afflictions you meet and those crosses that befall you in this world – they remind you that your true life and portion is not here but in heaven.”
In regards to the marks of a true walk with God, Burroughs has this to say, “There is a great difference between walking with a friend in company with others and walking with that friend alone. So it is with the saints of God. While they must converse with the world and can find something of God even there, it is not the same as when their should are alone with Him. That is where they find the sweetest and most comforting communion.”
What I took from this book was that if our walk with God is true, we will desire to spend time with Him, even when we’re experiencing difficulties or He feels distant. For anyone who doesn’t have that relationship with God, there is good news – you can! In Burroughs’ words, “Jesus Christ is Jacob’s ladder,…Christ is the ladder, but it is faith that carries us up,…” The only way we can experience salvation from an eternity in hell and the joy of a relationship with God, our Father and Creator, is through Jesus Christ. We need to understand the magnitude of what He did for us before we will recognize that He is so holy and by contrast we are so evil. Although this is the opposite of what our culture (and often even the church) tells us is healthy, it is the truth, and the beginning of accepting responsibility for the darkness of our hearts which then leads to a true repentance. In Mark 1:15, Jesus says, “The time has come,… The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!” It is by placing our trust in Christ Jesus that He will do what He has said (the good news) that we are saved. If our faith is genuine and true, it leads to a desire to love God with our whole hearts and to make disciples. In this book, Burroughs give us a glimpse of what that relationship/walk with God is like. I’m glad that I read it and have a clearer picture of what it is like and will be like.