Heaven: How to overcome the fear of death

Heaven: How to overcome the fear of death

Posted on September 13, 2008 Updated on September 13, 2008

I am going … to prepare a place for you John 14:2NIV

All that stuff you see in the  movies, like fog banks and disembodied spirits floating around in some nether world to the eerier sounds of Celtic music; forget it! Heaven will be:

1).           A home built just for you. Are you worried about where you go when you die or where your loved ones have gone? Don’t be Jesus said; do not let your heart be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my father’s house are many rooms: if it were not so, i would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if go and prepare a place for you, i will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where i am’ (John14:1-3NIV)

2)            A city you’ll love! 1John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem (Revelation21:2). It’s an exact square of 1,400 miles. It would stretch from London to Leningrad and from Glasgow to Gibraltar. It’s 40times the size of England, 10 times the size of France, and large than India. And that just the ground floor; it’s as tall as it wide. 600,000 storeys, more than enough space for billions of people to come and go. And come and go they will. The gates never close why shut them? The enemies of God will be banished, leaving only a perfect place of perfected people.

3).           With Christ, the one you love most! Paul, who had the privilege of visiting heaven, wrote, i desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far (Philippians 1:23NIV) so don’t get too comfortable here on earth.

Prayer point

1.       Grant me and my family  the grace to make heaven