No 7

(Heaven)

Heaven is the dwelling place of God : “Look down from Thy holy habitation, from heaven” (Deut 26 : 15a) . Of course, all the angels, the Old Testament Saints and all those who have died and had trusted Christ as their Savior are there as well just waiting for us because heaven is “that blessed hope” (Titus 2 :13) of all true Christians. It will be our permanent resting place where“God shall wipe away their tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain” (Rev 21 :4). What a place this must be. However in a certain way we, as believers, are already in heaven, here on earth; we are “as strangers and pilgrims” (1 Peter 2 :11) in passage only. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5 :1 that : “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens”. Or, how about Philippians 3 :20 “for our conversation is in heaven”. So now you say, ok, great I’m saved; when I die what will heaven be like? Well, you don’t want to say what someone whose 7 year old son had asked him that very question. The father answered “heaven will be like a never-ending church service”. To a seven year old that description obviously did not appeal to him; if anything, he got him turned off completely on heaven. But the question is legitimate : “What will we do in heaven?”. The Bible does not say specifically that one guy will do this and the other guy will do that, but it does say that : “so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess 4 :17b) and Jesus “shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned to His glorious body” (Phil 3 :21) and God “will dwell with them (that’s us) and they shall be His people and God Himself shall be with them and be their God” (Rev 21 :3b) WOW!!! I don’t know about you but man, I’m anxious to get to heaven. Moses had to hide behind a rock (Exod 33 :20-23) because he could not look directly at God; we will be with Him, face to face for eternity. How long?? For eternity!!