Homesick for Heaven

It is very beautiful over there.

Last words of Thomas Edison

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Dr. Werner von Braun, well-known for his part in pioneering the U.S. space program, said that he had “essentially scientific” reasons for believing in life after death. He explained: “Science has found that nothing can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies the fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of the universe, doesn’t it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation - the human soul? I think it does.”

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If God has made this world so fair,

Where sin and death abound,

How beautiful beyond compare,

Will Paradise be found.

James Montgomery

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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

William Shakespeare

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Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

Lord Byron

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As he neared his end, John Newton exclaimed, “I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon.”

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The English scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is considered to have been one of the greatest experimental physicists. When Faraday was questioned on his speculations of a life after death, he replied: “Speculations? I know nothing about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. I know that my Redeemer lives, and because He lives, I shall live also.”

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HEAVEN

In childhood’s days our thoughts of Heaven

Are pearly gates and streets of gold,

And all so very far away;

A place whose portals may unfold

To us, some far-off distant day.

But in the gathering of the years,

When life is in the fading leaf,

With eyes perchance bedimmed by tears,

And hearts oft overwhelmed with grief,

We look beyond the pearly gate,

Beyond the clouds of grief’s dark night,

And see a place where loved ones wait,

Where all is blessedness and light.

And over all we see the face

Of Him who’ll bring us to our own -

Not to a far-off distant place,

For Heaven is, after all, just Home!

Sue H. McLane

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Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore

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Be assured that just as an hour is only part of a day, so life on Earth is only part of eternity.

C.L. Allen [CLA]

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Surely it is not wrong for us to think and talk about Heaven. I like to find out all I can about it. I expect to live there through all eternity. If I were going to dwell in any place in this country, if I were going to make it my home, I would inquire about its climate, about the neighbors I would have - about everything, in fact, that I could learn concerning it. If soon you were going to emigrate, that is the way you would feel.

 Well, we are all going to emigrate in a very little while. We are going to spend eternity in another world. … Is it not natural that we should look and listen and try to find out who is already there and what is the route to take?

Dwight L. Moody

It certainly seems like a good idea to talk about Heaven, meditate about Heaven and read about Heaven, because, after all, that’s where we’re going to spend eternity. It’s an important place - our eternal home. So it’s only natural to want to know what it’s like and what we’re going to be like when we get there.

David Brandt Berg [DBB]

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We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.

DBB

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Thinking about Heaven can inspire and encourage us to be more heavenly-minded and realize that Heaven is a real place where we’re really going to live.

DBB

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Heaven is a city without a cemetery.

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Think of it -

Stepping on shore,

and finding it Heaven!

Of taking hold of a hand,

and finding it God’s hand.

Of breathing a new air,

and finding it celestial air.

Of feeling invigorated,

and finding it immortality.

Of passing from storm to tempest

to an unbroken calm.

Of waking up and finding it Home.

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Heaven is something that we can easily get excited and thrilled about and look forward to. It will be like Christmas is for children, only it will be the greatest Christmas we’ve ever had!

DBB

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Heaven and the spirit world are much more real, beautiful and lasting than the world which you can see with your natural eyes at this very moment.

DBB

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Heaven is a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time!

DBB

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Where is there a country without sin, crime, lawlessness, bloodshed, disease, death, sorrow and heartache? Heaven is a country in which there is the absence of all that is common to any land, for in God’s country there are no barriers, no walls or curtains to divide; no race barrier; no soldiers because there are no wars; no policemen because there is no crime or sin; no undertakers because there are no graves; no physicians because germs, fevers, pestilences, diseases are unknown; no thieves because there is no darkness. Who would not yearn for this better and more desirable country in which there are no separations, no broken homes, no drunkards, no prisons, no hospitals, no beggars, no persons who are blind, deaf, dumb or destitute? What a country! Are you not homesick for Heaven?

H. Lockyer

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Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities.

DBB

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In Heaven, you’re going to get just about whatever you want. Heaven’s the place where all your heart’s desires will be fulfilled - if they’re good ones. Put in your order now!

DBB

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 The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet.

DBB

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If we really understood Heaven, we would be most unhappy and unsatisfied with life on Earth. We would rebel against our earthly limitations. If we saw Heaven, we could not bear this earth. That’s why Heaven is forever: we cannot bear to leave it after we get there.

CLA

NO DISAPPOINTMENT IN HEAVEN

Oh, there’s no disappointment in Heaven

No weariness, sorrow nor pain,

No hearts that are bleeding and broken,

No song with minor refrain.

The clouds of our earthly horizon

Will never appear in the sky,

For all will be sunshine and gladness,

With never a sob nor a sigh.

We’ll never pay rent for our mansions;

The taxes will never come due.

Our garments will never grow threadbare,

But always be fadeless and new.

We’ll never be hungry or thirsty,

Nor languish in poverty there;

For all the rich bounties of Heaven,

His Heaven-bound children will share.

F.M. Lehman

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Heaven is a permanent residence … a place where we unpack our bags and stay forever. … What a glorious thought to wake up in Heaven and realize it is home!

CLA

Acknowledgments

Quotations credited to CLA are taken from The Good News About Heaven by Charles L. Allen, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations credited to DBB are taken from the writings of David Brandt Berg. Reprinted by permission.

Quotations from Herbert Lockyer are from his book The Life Beyond, published by Fleming H. Revell.

Quotations that are not attributed are from unknown authors.

All Scripture is from the King James (Authorized) ­Version of the Bible, unless otherwise indicated.

Compiled and edited by Phillip Sherwood