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For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Hebrews 13:14
D.L. MOODY
Surely it is not wrong for us to think and talk about heaven. I like to locate it and find out all I can about it. I expect to live there through all eternity. If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors I would have, about everything, in fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel. Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while. We are going to spend eternity in another world, a grand and glorious world where God reigns. Is it not natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there and what is the route to take?
ERWIN LUTZER
We should take Moody’s advice! People who plan a trip to Europe spend hours reading travel books and studying maps about the places they hope to visit. Should we not be even more motivated by the fact that we are traveling to another world? We are leaving the land of the dying for the land of the living.
Death is not the end of the road, it’s just a bend in the road. When you go from this life into the next, you are immediately in that realm beyond.
A poor, little boy gazed longingly at toys in the store window. When he was finally gifted a toy for the first time, he exclaimed, “There’s no glass between!” In heaven, there will be a whole new reality—a new way of seeing. “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face” (1 Corinthians 13:12).
You were made for another world. Live today for eternity.
PRAYER
Father, may I live today to give you glory. You are my hope and eternity is my focus.REFLECTION QUESTIONS
If we spend hours studying maps for a vacation, why do we often spend so little time studying the 'map' of the eternal world where we will spend forever?What is one practical way you can live today as a citizen of ‘another world’ rather than just a resident of this one?