Eagerly Awaiting (Part 2)
“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ…” Philippians 3:20
You can love this life. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying your life. But you have to remember that this is our second citizenship. Our primary residence and citizenship is in a place somewhere beyond the clouds. Your main residence is glory. It’s not this old world. We are eagerly waiting for the trumpet to sound. We’re eagerly waiting for Jesus Christ to come back. Whatever you think you don’t want to leave on earth is nothing compared to the joys, pleasures, and things that await you on the other side.
We’re waiting. We’re waiting for His Son from Heaven. Heaven is a real place. Heaven has dimensions, measurements, streets, mansions, and cities. It’s a real place. There’s no limitations on our physical bodies when we get to Heaven. On earth, if you walk up a few flights of stairs, you’re huffing, puffing, struggling, and your knees are hurting. But when we get to Heaven, we’ll never have an asthmatic gasp for breath. We’ll never have a palpitation in our heart. He’s going to give us glorified bodies.
One day we’re going home. There’s no death in Heaven. The curse is forever gone, and we will never die. There’s no sorrow in Heaven. Job said the days of our life on earth are few and filled with sorrow. We come into the world crying, and then we cry the rest of our lives. But one of these days there will be no more crying, for God shall wipe every tear from our eyes. There’s coming a glad day that there will never be a tinge of sorrow in our lives. Can you imagine? Not ever another bad day.
Matthew 11 describes Heaven in a profound way. Of all the men born of women, Jesus said John the Baptist was the greatest. And then he makes this phenomenal statement: “But he who is least in the kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist.” Even if you lived a wicked, wretched life and you ask Jesus to save you with your very last breath you will still be so much more – mightier, blessed – than the greatest one left behind on earth!
Can you imagine what Heaven is going to be like? Eyes have not seen, and ears have not heard. Neither has it entered into the heart of men and women the things that God has in store for those who love Him.
C.S. Lewis once said, “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
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