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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:2, 3).
God fits heaven for the redeemed, and the redeemed for heaven. This is really a promise, a prepared place for us if we are prepared. He is preparing for us. Are we preparing for Him? And, after all, our great reward is not so much the place as the Savior Himself. We are to be with Him.
A traveler who had just returned from a trip to Jerusalem was visiting with Humboldt, the great naturalist and statesman, and discovered that he was as thoroughly acquainted with the streets and buildings of Jerusalem as was he himself. So he asked the aged statesman how long it had been since he visited Jerusalem. He replied, "I have never been there, but I intended to visit the Holy City 60 years ago, so I prepared myself."
If we are to be at home in the heavenly land, we must begin to prepare ourselves for it now. We must study the city. We must have contact with the King of the land.
The King is coming to receive His own. There is no doubt about it. His word has never been broken (John 10:35). "I am preparing; I will come again," He says. "I will receive you unto myself." And we can only answer, "Even so, come Lord Jesus" (Rev. 22:20).
Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er
Not all this world's pretended good
Could ever charm us more.
__Isaac Watts
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Ps. 90:1, 2).
God fits heaven for the redeemed, and the redeemed for heaven. This is really a promise, a prepared place for us if we are prepared. He is preparing for us. Are we preparing for Him? And, after all, our great reward is not so much the place as the Savior Himself. We are to be with Him.
A traveler who had just returned from a trip to Jerusalem was visiting with Humboldt, the great naturalist and statesman, and discovered that he was as thoroughly acquainted with the streets and buildings of Jerusalem as was he himself. So he asked the aged statesman how long it had been since he visited Jerusalem. He replied, "I have never been there, but I intended to visit the Holy City 60 years ago, so I prepared myself."
If we are to be at home in the heavenly land, we must begin to prepare ourselves for it now. We must study the city. We must have contact with the King of the land.
The King is coming to receive His own. There is no doubt about it. His word has never been broken (John 10:35). "I am preparing; I will come again," He says. "I will receive you unto myself." And we can only answer, "Even so, come Lord Jesus" (Rev. 22:20).
Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er
Not all this world's pretended good
Could ever charm us more.
__Isaac Watts
MEDITATION PRAYER: "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God" (Ps. 90:1, 2).
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