THE REALITIES OF HEAVEN

By A. W. Tozer

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also
in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not
so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
                                                                               --  John 14:1-2
 

      Much of the secularism and rationalism of our times
dismisses the Christian view and teaching about heaven
as "nothing more than hopeful thinking."

      But the Christian's promised hope of future blessedness
is founded upon the fullest and plainest revelations of the
Old and New Testaments.

     That it accords with the most sacred yearnings of the
human breast does not weaken it, but serves rather to
confirm the truth of it, since the One who made the heart
might be expected also to make provision for the
fulfillment of its deepest longings.

      God's promises are made to the Christian believer,
who generally has difficulty picturing himself as inheriting
such bliss as the Scriptures describe.

      The reason is not hard to discover, for the most godly
Christian is the one who knows himself best, and no one
who knows himself will believe that he deserves anything
better than hell.  But even justice is on his side, for it is
written, "If we confess our sins. God is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness"                                       1 John 1:9.

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Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.