When You DieParaugs

BE READY!

Sometimes the writers of the Bible would run out of words to describe what will be in heaven, and they would move to words about what won’t be in heaven. The apostle John was given a glimpse of heaven when he wrote:

God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. -Revelation 21:3-4.

Look at the key things that won’t be there, mourning, crying, pain. Heaven will be entirely different than this world in this way. It is a place of pure joy and delight. Maybe you have experienced heartache and stress, or depression and disease this year. There will be none of it in heaven. Maybe you live with physical pain in your body every day. Heaven will be pain-free, Advil-free, arthritis-free, Covid free. People we love who are in wheelchairs are going to be able to run and walk and skip. The ones we love with special needs will be healthy and whole and have able bodies and able minds. Maybe you live with emotional scars and nightmares and memories and flashbacks and heartbreaks and disappointments from your past that are simply overwhelming to you. You’ll have none of that. All the broken and the hard will be gone!

There will be no anxious waiting rooms, no empty tissue boxes, no tear-stained divorce papers, no motionless ultrasounds, no tiny caskets, no bloated starving stomachs on TV. And did you notice who that passage just said is going to wipe away your tears when you get to heaven? It says, “God himself will wipe the tears from their eyes.” God himself. The same hands that carved the mountains. The hands that healed blind eyes and made sick people well. The same hands that were nail-pierced for our salvation will wipe the tears from your cheeks. It’s an amazing picture of the tenderness of God. Heaven won’t just be amazing for the scenery & adventure, but for personal healing and restoration

The day is coming – one of these days will be your very last day on planet Earth. You don’t get to predict it or control it. There is one of the little boxes on the calendar of your life that’s the last one. You cannot escape death. And even though it is hard right now to see what life is like on the other side, there is something so much more extraordinary, so much better. And you don’t have to fear it if you’ve been redeemed by Jesus Christ. Do you know why? Heaven is beyond your wildest imagination. It’s indescribable. Heaven will blow your mind!

Ask Yourself:

-Are you ready?

Pause to Pray:

Come, Lord Jesus, come!

Take a Next Step:

Keep praying for your 3 names for 3 minutes each day at 3pm!