A short passage from C.S. Lewis' book, "The Last Battle,"  chapter XV.

 

"I have come home at last!  This is my real country!  I belong here.  This is the land I have been looking for

all of my life, though I never knew it till now.  The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked

a little like this."

I have loved ones who actually have a sense of fear thinking that I might be right when I claim that the rapture may be near.  I wonder at that.  I feel as though C.S. Lewis summed up my feelings exactly.  I have been looking for this all my life!  This world has so many beautiful and enjoyable things, but I know the very best things in this world

are just shadows of the place that awaits us.

When I look at a Thomas Kincaid painting with a quaint stone cottage beside a tumbling brook, I get the feeling inside that tells me, "This is a little bit of what Heaven will look like!".  When I hear "Oh Holy Night" at Christmastime, inside I am saying, "This is a little of what Heaven will sound like!"  When I remember my childhood and think about my daddy catching me up in his protective arms and hugging me, I know this is how it will be infinitely magnified when I am caught up to my eternal home!

Quote from the conclusion of "The Last Battle." 

"But for them it was only the beginning of the real story.  All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.'

That's an amazing thought, isn't it?  That however badly I fail to communicate the anticipated rapture experience, I utterly fail when it comes to my descibing what awaits in eternity.  Imagine as C.S. Lewis does that things will just get better and better!  Truly, I cannot describe what I can so barely fathom myself!

Come quickly, Lord Jesus!

 

Bruce Baber
jbaber1@comcast.net