HEAVEN

This morning was one of those days. Rain still coming down hard. A couple days ago I had a young man - very young - speaking to me about his own 'suicidal thoughts', which he always associated with darkness descending outside, then inside...
 
So this morning my mind continued to race up and down corridors of 'discipline', truths we have to believe and hold, in order to stand firm on solid ground. And this battle is real, and necessary, and daily. But then I cast my thoughts to heaven...
 
I pictured stepping out of the ocean, in crystal blue waters now, onto warm, comforting, white sand. The sunlight beating heat onto my body and into my soul. Respite. Arrival.
 
There are 2 powerful passages and pictures of heaven in the very last 2 chapters of the Bible, and at the end of a 'raging sea' that is the book of Revelation.
 
In chapter 21:1-5 and chapter 22:1-5 (look them up!), we see a place not only of outward bliss, but of inward capacity to enjoy; there we will stand beside crystal clear waters flowing from a throne, through a city, with trees with leaves that 'heal nations'. We will have no 'sun' because the Son will be the light. There will be no more sadness within, no more tears without, no more sorrow. There will be no more struggle in the soul to hold to truth, because Truth will hold us.
 
(Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:1-5; 1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 John 3:2; John 5:24)
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