“Aim at heaven and you will get earth
thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” –
C.S. Lewis
Last month, my sister and brother-in-law, Nina and Jon,
announced that they’re having a baby, and ever since then they’ve methodically
rearranged their lives to prepare for the baby. They bought their first house in a nice neighborhood, they
bought a bigger and safer car, and these things only touch the surface of
what’s changed. In John 14, before
Jesus leaves the world, he says, “I go and prepare a place for
you.” In Luke 23, Jesus refers to
this place as “paradise.” If you
think this life has been good to you, it pails in comparison to what happens
next.
That
is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "No eye has seen, no ear has
heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love
him." (1 Corinthians 2:9, NLT).
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