Jesus says, “In My Father’s house are many mansions, if it were
not so, I would have told you. I
go to prepare a place for you. And
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 14:2-3).
Heaven will be a mansion like we have never seen before.
“We have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens. For we groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven”
(2 Corinthians 5:1-2). We should
be looking forward to going to Heaven. “For
our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the
Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it
may be conformed to His glorious body” (Philippians 3:20-21).
Heaven is described as “The city had no need for the sun or moon to
shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it” (Revelation 21:23).
Heaven will always be pure. “But
there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an
abomination or lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life” (Revelation 21:27). There
will be no evil people in Heaven.
Heaven is “an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does
not fade away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:4).
We do not earn Heaven, but we inherit it by being a faithful child of
God. In Heaven “God shall wipe
away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow,
nor crying. There shall be no
more pain, for the former things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4).
There will be no tears or crying in Heaven because there will be
nothing there to cause them. There
will never be another sad moment because there will be nothing but joy and
happiness. In Heaven there will
be no funerals or cemeteries because people there will live forever, “In
the land where we never grow old”. There
will be no pain, sickness or hurt in Heaven because we will have an immortal
body like the Lord’s body. As
humans beings we cannot even begin to understand the glories of Heaven even
if we were given a lengthy description.
The only way we will understand how wonderful Heaven is going to be
is to see it for ourselves. Let’s
make sure we go to Heaven and not Hell.