Heaven's Greatest Moment

I have a feeling that when we get to heaven and we see the golden streets and the gates of pearl, they will all somehow fade into insignificance when we see the Savior. Imagine the moment we see Jesus! Right now we don’t see Him with our visual eyesight. The Bible says, “whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8).

If we rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory now, when we cannot see Him with visible eyesight, think of our joy and glory when we can! When at last we are able to focus our eyes on Him who, though He was God, became a man and paid the penalty for our sins on the cross, what a moment that will be! Everything else will pale into insignificance. Like Stephen, we’ll say: “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:56) We’ll be like the apostle John who turned and saw “One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band …. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, ‘Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen’” (Revelation 1:13, 17-18).

I remember hearing someone say that if he could be in heaven and peek through a keyhole for a second every thousand years to see Jesus, it’d be worth it. But it’s going to be far better than that. I don’t know how it all works, but we’re going to be able to fellowship with Him personally and know Him in a way that’s beyond our knowledge of Him now. Revelation 22:3-4 says about heaven: “The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face.”

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