Once when Martin Luther was asked what he would do today if he knew the resurrection would happen tomorrow.. He said he would plant a tree.

The jewish people have this saying that when youd do good things you are plating the trees of paradise today. Rob Bell talks about it in his dvd 'trees'

In Gladiator Maximus tells his soldiers before battle, 'What we do in life, echoes in eternity'

At the end of his longest argument in scripture, the resurrection chapter 1 Cor 15, Paul says that what we do for Jesus we do not do in vain.

We are not just waiting around to go to heaven, there is a strange mysterious continuity between what we do here and what happens after the resurrection. What we do today as the people of God, the children of God. Mattters. A lot.

So grab a spade.