Hope and Heaven

This week’s Theme is Hope and Heaven.  There are a lot of hymns focused on heaven, so it was difficult to choose.  And, of course, I Can Only Imagine, one of my favorite Mercy Me songs goes very well.  The Bible has quite a bit to say about heaven, however there is a lot we still will not know until we get there.  We know we will be surrounded by His glory, as the song goes, but do we really have a true idea how we will respond to being before a holy God?  The only way to truly find out is to accept His salvation here on this earth, and look forward to what is to come!  Let us live worthy for Him, so one day we can sing Worthy Is the Lamb to our Savior!

 

"Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming."

James 5:7

 

"Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure."

1 John 3:2-3

 

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words."

I Thessalonians 4:16-18

 

"Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Revelation 21:1-4

 

Kiwi