Revelation 21:22-27 gives us a description of the
New Jerusalem: "And I saw
no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.
And the city has no need of the sun or of
the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. And the
nations shall walk by its light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it. And in the daytime
(for there shall be no night there)
its gates shall never be closed; and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean and
no one who practices abomination and lying
shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's
book of life."
I am still thinking about yesterday as I look at
these verses. We read the description of Heaven and think about those precious
lives that were ended WAY too early. We read of what will be in Heaven but also
what will NOT be there. There won't be any sin, any pain, any diseases of the
body or mind to afflict anyone there. Death will be forever abolished and we will be living forever with a Father that loves us and will keep us from all harm. If there is anything that can bring comfort to our hearts right now, the knowledge that for those of us who are believers in that we will see them again on the other side and they will be the ones welcoming us home should be that.
I pray that for these families that death is only an interruption, not a goodbye and that the Comforter (the Holy Spirit) will bring strength and comfort to their hearts.
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