In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. John 14:2
You know how psych profs like to mess with student's heads. One prof gave his students a test: each student in his or her mind envisioned a journey along a path. Each student was told to create his own details of the journey.
At the last part of the path was a wall, where they were told to write down what that wall looked like and how we got to the other side of it. Then, they shared some of their own differing details out loud. At the end, the professor explained what each detail about the wall and getting to the other side of it represented in their lives.
When it came to the wall, some classmates saw a large concrete wall with barbed wire or a brick wall that they had to scale and struggle to get over. The professor called on one student and asked him what his wall looked like.
His answer seemed very different from the others in the class. His wall was the wall of a home, and to get to the other side, he simply opened the door and walked in. The professor looked at him for a moment, and said, “Interesting, " because according to the professor, the wall represented the student's view on death, and how they get to the other side represented the amount of fear one has in facing death.
The student who saw the wall as a home was a Christian. The end of this life meant going home to heaven. We don’t need to be afraid of the afterlife or dying or what comes next because we have the promises of Jesus in our lives. We have been given the mercy and grace of a Savior who died for us all so that we can have eternal life with him.
The Bible gives us glimpses of heaven, but not an ultimate picture of what is waiting for us. What we do know about heaven is this: It will be home. And that is enough. There is no reason to be afraid.
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