Coming Home to Welcoming Arms

Christ also assures us... 

• that there is no crying in this wondrous realm—
• crying in the sense of a soul in search of truth, 
• crying in the way that our hearts cry out for God. 
• All of this will be gone. 

For in heaven...

• the questing soul has at last come home... 
• to find our Father there waiting to welcome us, 
• as always, with open arms.

In heaven...

• there is deliverance from pain.  
• Surely it is wondrous enough... 
• to anticipate freedom from bodily, physical suffering.  
• But how much more is the boundless pleasure of release... 
• from mental anguish and spiritual agony?  
• Those conditions which plague our days... 
• and make of our nights a nightmare will have no place there.  

It scarcely seems possible...

• especially for those of us who, 
• down through the long years of life's journey, 
• have endured suffering of all sorts, 
• including the agony of watching others, 
• whom we love, 
• grapple with the tyranny of pain.

All of this leaves us... 

• a bit breathless and amazed.  
• Humanly, we cannot possibly imagine... 
• such a state of blessed relief.  
• But we are given our Father's quiet assurance that this is what heaven is like.  
• We scarce can take it in.  

Yet at this point... 

• we are still only part of the way through heaven's wonders.

To Be Continued...

Adapted Excerpt from

A Layman Looks at the Lord's Prayer

W. Phillip Keller