Bird River Bible Blog

Something I like to do is look at houses. When I was in college, and even now, I loved going to my friends’ homes. I liked meeting their families and seeing what kind of house they lived in. House tours are my favorite. Anyway usually in about every third house I go to, I can count on there being some lovely embroidered thing or a painted plaque that bears the quote, “Home is Where the Heart is”. Along with the quote are usually pink hearts and a picture of a cottage. I’ve called a lot of different places “home” over the years. Sometimes people would ask me, “Where’s home?” or “Where are you from?” My answer would sometimes go like this: “Well, right now, at this moment, I’m from here. I’m from Stillwood. This is my home. But, last year and in the fall, I’ll be living in Abbotsford, so that’s my home too. My permanent address though, is in Burnaby. And that’s where I call home.” It got even more complicated when I moved out to Manitoba because I started calling two different provinces home. Home is where the heart is…yep, I’m pretty sure that I’ve left pieces of my heart in all those places I called home.
My heart though, really, is in Heaven. I cannot wait to go to Heaven. I was just reading the end of the book of Revelation and it’s absolutely amazing. In a previous devotion I talked about how sometimes we try and try, but the words that we use just can’t seem to “paint” a full enough picture of what we see. In Revelation, the author John sees a vision of Heaven and describes in detail what he sees; there are streets of pure gold as clear as glass, and gates each made up of a single pearl (Revelation 21:21). I love this description though:

“Now God’s presence is with people, and he will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death, sadness, crying or pain, because all the old ways are gone.” Revelation 21:3b-4

I mean, isn’t that absolutely amazing? It just makes me long for Heaven. Sometimes when I see pain and suffering, all I want to do is be in Heaven where those hurts will no longer exist. But then I remember that God has me here on earth so that I can share with more people about the joys that are found in God and that I need to do all that I can to share God’s amazing love so that more people can experience eternity in Heaven with God. Yeah, my heart is in Heaven and I can hardly wait to get there. Where is your heart and where do you long to be?

“But store your treasures in heaven where they cannot be destroyed by moths or rust and where thieves cannot break in and steal them. Your heart will be where your treasure is.” Matthew 6:21