Reaching For Heaven Series

A little girl was taking an evening walk with her father. Wonderingly, she looked up at the stars and exclaimed; "Oh, Daddy, if the wrong side of heaven is so beautiful, what must the right side be!" Why should we want to go to Heaven? Because:

Heaven Will Be Rapture. Two things are found in Heaven that will make us happy: the first is the absence of all evil; and the second is, the presence of all good. The one prevents sorrow; and the other brings fullness of joy. It will be all joy and rapture to hear the angels song reverberate throughout the city. It will be rapture to meet the saints of old. It will be rapture to praise our Redeemer for all eternity.

Why should we want to go to Heaven? Because: Heaven Will Be Restoration.

There will be a day, for those who know Christ and make it to Heaven, where the blinded eyes will see, the deaf ears will hear, the muted mouth will speak, the crippled feet will run, … it will be a place of restoration!

Heaven is the city promised to the captives whom Christ shall make free; it is the kingdom assured to them whom Christ shall crown; there is the light that will never go out; there is the health that shall never be impaired; there is the glory that shall never be defaced; there is the life that shall taste no death; and there is the place that goes beyond the world's imaginations.

There is the world that shall never decline; there is every want supplied freely without money; there is no danger, but happiness, and honor, and singing, and praise and thanksgiving unto the heavenly Jehovah, "to him that sits on the throne," "to the lamb" that here was led to the slaughter, that now "reigns" on High.

D. L. Moody gave a vivid description of Heaven when he wrote, "A city without pain, a city without sorrow, without sickness, without death. There is no darkness there. The Lamb is the light thereof. It needs no sun, it needs no moon. The paradise of Eden was as nothing compared with this one. The tempter came into Eden and triumphed, but in that city nothing that defiles shall ever enter. There will be no temper there. Think of a place where temptation cannot come. Think of a place where we will be free from sin; where pollution cannot enter, and where the righteous shall reign forever. Think of a city that is not built with hands, where the buildings do not grow old with time; a city whose inhabitants no census has numbered except the Book of Life, which is a heavenly directory. Think of a city through whose streets runs no tide of business, where no nodding hearses creep slowly with their burdens to the tomb; a city without griefs or graves, without sins or sorrows, without marriages or mournings, without births or burials; a city which glories in having Jesus for its king, angels for its guards, and whose citizens are saints!"

Why should we want to go to Heaven? Because: Heaven Will Be Real.

Heaven is a definite place — it has a specific location in Heavenly geography. Our text says that He has gone to prepare a place for us. Some say that heaven will simply be a state of mind. I am here to tell you that Heaven is real. It is not an imaginary "pie in the sky" for those who are weak minded and need to place their hope in a better life than the one they have on this earth.