A Home in Heaven
"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."
John 14:3 (NKJV)
A little girl was once walking with her father on a clear night, looking up at the stars. She gazed at the sky for a long time and then said quietly: 'Daddy, if the wrong side of heaven is so beautiful, what must the right side be like?'
I love that. From the wrong side, this side, of eternity, even the glimpses we catch of God's creation are breathtaking. Mountains and oceans and stars and sunsets, all of them created casually, as it were, on the way to something far greater. What must glory itself look like?
Jesus told His disciples, on the eve of His death, not to let their hearts be troubled. He was going to prepare a place for them. This is not poetic language or comforting metaphor. It is a literal promise from the One who is the way, the truth, and the life, a promise that where He is, we will also be.
There is something extraordinary about the fact that Jesus, who had no earthly home, who said that foxes had holes and birds had nests, but the Son of Man had nowhere to lay His head, left Heaven's glory to come to Earth's misery. He left the presence of the Father and the splendour of eternity to live among us, suffer for us, and die in our place.
And He did all of that so that we could come home.
Heaven is not a vague, cloud-filled afterlife. It is a prepared place for a prepared people. It is the home we were made for, the place where the longings that this world can never fully satisfy will finally find their fulfilment. It is where God dwells, and where those who love Him will dwell with Him, for ever.
This hope is not escapism. It is fuel. It is the thing that enables us to face the hardest things of this life without being undone by them. Because we know this is not all there is.
Whatever you are going through today, let the promise of home sustain you. He has gone to prepare a place. He is coming back. And you will be with Him.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank You for the extraordinary promise of heaven. Renew my eternal perspective today. Help me to hold the things of this world lightly, knowing that the best is yet to come. Until then, keep me faithful. Amen.
Pastor Ras
All Nations Community Church
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