'For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.'
Jesus has come down from Heaven, but where is and what is heaven. We know that Heaven is where God resides, where all is perfect, where those who are declared just, brought to faith, who know our Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who are washed clean by the blood of the Lamb of God, where God's elect go when we shake off our earthly troubles.
We can no more picture the reality of Heaven than a caterpillar can picture life as a butterfly. But just as Man is made in the image of God, so the world is made in the image of Heaven, an image marred by the sin of Man.
For the saved person all things are good, and the Kingdom of Heaven is brought into their daily lives. Though now we see through a glass darkly, when we are raised to Glory we will see face to face.
Then we will know for sure that we have spent many years acting as if the image that is Earth is the reality that is Heaven.
Only in Heaven, in the eternal presence of God will we be fully alive.
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