Return to…Where?

…Jesus told them, "I will be with you only a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me. You will search for me but not find me. And you cannot go where I am going." The Jewish leaders were puzzled by this statement. "Where is he planning to go?" they asked. "Is he thinking of leaving the country and going to the Jews in other lands? Maybe he will even teach the Greeks!" John 7:33-35 NLT 

So why couldn’t the Jewish leaders go where Jesus was going? Only because Jesus was going to heaven…and since they didn’t believe in Jesus as the Son of God, they wouldn’t be going to heaven. They were clueless. They thought maybe Jesus was going to visit Jews in other countries or to the Greeks—the Gentiles. We can see the big picture now, but had we been there with Jesus and the Jewish leaders would we have understood where Jesus was going? As believers we know where Jesus went and that we will be going there someday, too. Heaven. Heaven is a wonderful place. There is a kid’s song about heaven…

Heaven is a wonderful place, filled with glory and grace.

I wanna see my Savior’s face, cause heaven is a wonderful place.

I wanna go there!

There is so little that we really know about Heaven. We do know that we will gather around the King’s banquet table…and around His throne where we will sing praises to the King of Kings. It will be a place where there will be no tears. No sadness. Joy filled endless years—eternity. There are lots of stories of people who have had near death or actual death experience and claim to have been to heaven and come back to their life on earth. One of my favorites of those individuals is a little four-year old boy who dies during an appendectomy, goes to heaven where he meets his great grandfather, a sister who died during miscarriage, and even Jesus. Heaven Is For Real has now been made into a movie that will be released April 16^th.  From the trailer releases it looks like it is going to be an outstanding movie—true to the real story. Little Colton gives so many people hope that heaven is a real place. Do you want to go there?   

RSVP: Jesus has told us where He is going—and by believing in Him, acknowledging that He is the Son of God, He invites you to call Heaven your home, too. Will you be going there someday?  How will you respond to His invitation today?    

Prayer~ Jesus, Thank you for Your invitation to make Heaven our home. It will be exciting to be there with You one day—for eternity.

© 2014 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.

All scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted.