Our Heavenly Home

TOPIC: OUR HEAVENLY HOME

Main Text: John 14:1-15

Memory Verse Text: John 14: 2-3

We are bound for our heavenly Home!  The Bible does not tell us too much about Heaven, but just enough to thrill our hearts as we think of the bliss and glory shared by all whose Home it is. Shortly before our Lord Jesus went to the cross of Calvary to die for us He gave to His first disciples (and to us) a very wonderful promise – John 14:2-3.  It is upon this promise that we base our confidence that Heaven is our Home.

There are three significant reasons why every Christian should be helped and encouraged by a meditation upon the subject of Heaven:

1. First: because we are most surely going to Heaven! 

Every truly born again (John 3:3), blood-washed (1 John 1:7) believer is bound for the Heavenly City.  Our names are already written there (Luke 10:20), and many of God’s children are already living there (Ephesians 3:15).  

2. Second: because we all have loved ones in Heaven.  

The very mention of Heaven reminds us of some who are there now.  Who are they?  God the Father, the Lord Jesus, the angels, the saints of all the ages are all there – including loved ones who died ‘in Christ’!  

3. Third: because this is our Lord’s prescribed cure for a troubled heart.  See how this chapter begins – John 14:1!  Our hearts are often troubled, perplexed or burdened, and surely it helps us to think of Heaven and Home!  We would be happier, healthier Christians if we spent more time viewing the ‘land that is brighter than day!’

In John 14:2-3 our Lord tells us three simple facts about Heaven:

1. HEAVEN IS A PLACE 

The Lord Jesus said, “I am going there to prepare a place for you…”, and that place He described as His ‘Father’s house’ in which are ‘many rooms’, or abiding places.  Yes, Heaven is real! 

2. HEAVEN IS A PREPARED PLACE

In our Lord’s simple statement we have a wonderful revelation of His great love for us.  He is preparing for us – who are so unworthy!  He wants us to be for ever with Him (John 17:24), and He has gone on to prepare the Home where we shall live with Him for ever (1 Thessalonians 4:17). Heaven is prepared for every true believer; Hell is prepared for every unsaved soul.

3. HEAVEN IS A PREPARED PLACE FOR A PREPARED PEOPLE

The Lord Jesus said, “I am going there to prepare a place for YOU” – that is, for all who believe on Him as their Saviour and Lord, and who come to the Father by Him (John 14:1-3,6). How foolish it is to say, ‘Everybody will go to Heaven! 

Heaven is the Home of Heaven’s people.  Are you one of Heaven’s people?  If not, you may become one by trusting the Lord Jesus as your own personal Saviour (John 14:6); and if so, may you enjoy ‘days of Heaven upon earth’ as you travel to your heavenly Home!

PRAYER NOTE:

Father give me the grace to live a life pleasing unto you and to prepare myself for heaven at all times.

Help every believer to be ready at all times for this glorious place prepared for His people, that we will not be disqualified on that day.