Heaven is a Wonderful Place

“When I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that when I am you may be also.” - John 14:3

My kindergarten (the called Beginning Department) teacher, Mrs. Janette Crouch, had been sick. Rev. David J. Evans, my pastor, had gotten word of her death on Palm Sunday morning. He announced the message to the congregation with these words: “Mrs. Crouch made her triumphal entry into the New Jerusalem today.” This was one of my first experiences with the death of a friend. It was a positive one.

Now (as you read this) is the time to face death—the death of a loved one or your own death with faith.
Because of what God has done for us at the cross, through Jesus Christ, we are able to view death not as a tragedy but as a triumph. When you make your triumphal entry into the New Jerusalem, you will not be disappointed. He will say to you, “Well done.”

A little girl was walking with her father on a starry night. She said, “Father, I’ve been thinking. If the wrong side of heaven is so beautiful, what will the right side be like?” James Montgomery wrote: “If God has made this world so fair, where sin and death abound, how beautiful, beyond compare, will paradise be found.”

Heaven is a place of prepared people.

Prayer: Loving God, show us your way to the beautiful place you have prepared for us.

 

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