"There's Heaven"

Read: Revelation 22:1-5

They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. --- Revelation 22:5

The Bible In One Year:
Psalms 148-150
1 Corinthians 15:29-58

When 3-year-old Bree's grandpa suffered heart failure, he was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. A few weeks after the funeral when Bree and her family drove past the hospital, she pointed to it and remarked matter-of-factly, "There's heaven." She knew her grandpa was in heaven. Since he went to the hospital on the day he died, she thought it must be heaven.

Bree's mother wrote, "We adults [have] abstract concepts of a paradise beyond even the invisible stars." Bree's childish view of heaven caused her mom to think of heaven as a real place --- which helped to comfort her.

In Revelation, John gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like. After being caught up to heaven, he saw "a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal" and "the tree of life" [22:1-2]. And in that place there was no need for "lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light" [v.5].

Words are inadequate to describe heaven, but we know it's a real place for those who have trusted Jesus as their Savior. Jesus assures us, "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" [John 14:2]. One day we'll be there and won't need to imagine that place anymore. --- Anne Cetas

I have a home in heaven above,
From sin and sorrow free,
A mansion which eternal love
Designed and formed for me. --- Bennett

HEAVEN IS A PREPARED PLACE FOR A PREPARED PEOPLE.