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Sermon on Heaven (page five)

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It is the most natural thing

 in the world for the Christian

 to long to be home with Christ  in glory.

We’re not in glory yet. We’re still fighting the daily downward pull of sin. We’re still struggling with habits that aren’t glorifying to God. We’re still worried about things like money and health. Not that those aren’t legitimate concerns, but we’re worried about them. When we’re destined for glory! We will share in the glory of Christ.

  But we’re not there yet, and it’s hard to wait. It’s hard to wait because often we don’t see God doing anything. But the inactivity of God between now and that day when there will be a new heaven and a new earth is not really inactivity.

  Right now, Jesus is seated in Heaven where, first of all, He rules, and secondly, He prepares a place for us. After His resurrection, Jesus ascended to the Father and is now “seated at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven” as Hebrews 1:3 tells us.

  And He rules over everything even now. That’s where faith enters in. Seen a newspaper recently? Watched the evening news recently? Does it look like Jesus is ruling over all things? There’s plenty of evidence to the contrary, at least on the surface of things. Are things getting better spiritually?  Is wickedness declining? Or is it increasing? Jesus spoke about an increase of wickedness before His return. “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,” He says in Matthew 24:12.

  So here we are. We believe in this perfect world that’s coming, but we’re not there yet and we wonder, “What is God up to?”

  Well, right now Jesus is ruling over all things.

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