September 30
Though it is wonderful to contemplate the glories of Heaven, though it captures our imagination to ponder the ways the Lord will enable us to fill eternity with the joys of discovering distant worlds, and pondering the depth of His being, and unfolding the delights of reigning as co-heirs of all that is Christ’s, there is one thing about Heaven that will forever extinguish the memory of the sorrow that’s been endured here.
We know we walk a thin line here between wholeness and brokenness, between health and sickness, between prosperity and poverty, between hope and despair. We know nothing is certain while we dwell in a tabernacle of flesh—except as the old saying goes, ‘Nothing is certain but death and taxes.’
Yet, our promises of Heaven ease our pain when we suffer and assuage our sorrows when we anguish, for those glimpses of hope that the Lord has shared with us are the ‘earnest’ of all that is to come when we are with Him forever (Ephesians 1:13, 14). And the promise that perhaps gives us most hope once we are saved by His blood, is that found in Revelation 21:4.
In this amazing Book that unfolds the secrets of the God of the Universe to those whom He has ordained to understand them, is the very clear promise that anyone who has ever suffered will gladly grasp. Here John the Beloved reveals, “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things will be passed away.”
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