Heaven bound!

John 14:1-4 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. 2 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. 3 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. 4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

How do I get to go to heaven; that is this Sunday’s message I am studying. We have been going through the I Am statements of Jesus in the book of John; this weekend is John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Even in just a surface look at the text above, we get a glimpse of heaven, the promise of heaven, and the return of Jesus to take us there. Jesus is going and working on a heavenly home and coming back to take you there! Did you grasp that? A heavenly mansion, built by the One who created earth, created you, and now is building your eternal home! The Taj Mahal wouldn’t even qualify for our pets house in heaven. You get to spend eternity there with it’s creator!

If you can take your mind to a place that you begin to focus on heaven and all that awaits you there, the troubles of this life will become trivial. Focusing on the eternal transforms the temporal into the minute that it really is. Jesus said in the gospel of Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Start your day and live your day as if it was the day that you stood before Jesus ready to enter into heaven. What have you done today, (which would be a life question), He might ask. “Well, today I tried to not worry about the small stuff and concentrated on who you put in my path, that I might encourage them with the hope you give me.” That is how we concentrate on eternity; living our lives as though it might be our last day. If you knew it was, that trouble you are worried about for tomorrow, would not be a worry at all.

Our world is rolling downhill picking up speed as it runs from God. Satan and his limited power seem to be peaking, but there is assurance in that; he is peaking before he falls. Being a Christian is a lonely place to be, but it will not be as lonely as hell to those that deny Him. Live your life for the One who gives you eternal life, and a heavenly mansion to boot!