Longing for Home
Day 351

The Bible says just enough about heaven to make people wonder what it
will really be like.

"As it is written: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has
conceived what God has prepared for those who love him'" (1 Corinthians
2:9).

The reality of heaven is going to far surpass anything you can imagine
now. Revelation 21 describes the heavenly city--a city so magnificent
and vast that you can hardly comprehend it.

It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a
very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great,
high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. . . .
The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as
glass.

The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of
precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the
third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth
carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the
tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl.
The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.
. . . The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for
the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. (11-12, 18-21,
23)

The walls will be over 200 feet thick. Each of the four sides of the
city will be approximately 1,400 miles long:

"I figured it out one time--396,000 stories high and one half the size
of the United States," says Dr. Erwin Lutzer.

Read the entire chapter of Revelation 21 for further details.

Sovereign King, Your kingdom is glorious beyond my imagination. I am
prepared to be amazed! Amen.

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