Revelation 21:4 (NIV)
"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
Heaven is not a consolation prize. It's not a vague, cloudy place where you float around doing nothing. It's the restoration of everything that was broken. The end of every tear. The death of death itself.
When you serve in a broken world — when you love people who are hurting, when you show up in the middle of pain, when you keep going even when it's hard — you are pointing to something real. A day that is coming. A world that will be made right.
You serve now because of what is coming then. The hope of heaven is not an escape from this world — it's the fuel that keeps you going in it.
Lord, let the hope of heaven fuel how I serve today. Help me to live as someone who knows how the story ends. Amen.
I block the lie that heaven is irrelevant to how I live now. The hope of what is coming fuels how I serve today — and I live as someone who knows how the story ends.
Philippians 3:20 (NIV)
"But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ."
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How does the reality of heaven change how you view the suffering and brokenness you see around you?
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In what way does the hope of heaven fuel your desire to serve right now?