My Father's House

We don't really know our own hearts except that they easily become troubled.

John 14:1,2  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.

Jesus said, "Heaven is my Father's house." Heaven is home for all of God's children. The Father's house must be a place of love and joy.

When the Apostle John tried to describe Heaven, he almost ran out of symbols and comparisons (Rev. 21-22). Finally, he listed the things that won't be there: death, sorrow, crying, pain, night . . . ect.

It's good to think of Heaven when our hearts are troubled, but we don't have to wait for Heaven to know the Father. If we know Jesus, we know the Father.

Who could mind the journey when the road leads home?

---Dr. James M. Gray