Forever in God’s house!

“I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” (Psalm 23:6 NIV)

When I was a little boy, I shared a bedroom with my older brother. At night, just before we went to sleep, I’d say, "Good night, David." And he usually responded with, “Good night, Mikey; I will see you tomorrow if I don’t die!” That was a horrible thing to say to a little boy! For many years, I went to sleep afraid that I might die sometime during the night! And to make it worse, I had been taught to pray the following prayer just before going to sleep: “As I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” This only amplified my fears! I struggled with the fear of dying for many years until I received Christ and understood what I had to look forward to. 

Death is not the end!

You have a lot to look forward to once you leave this earth! Heaven is a wonderful place, with God’s glory waiting there for you. And even if you have had a tough life here on earth, if you have asked Jesus Christ to save you, you will dwell forever in the house of the Lord, where there’s no more sorrow, no more suffering, no more sin, no more sickness, no more sadness, no more problems, no more pain, and no more pressure.

Therefore

“It is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus” Eph. 2:5-7).