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THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE DEVOTIONAL SERIES TITLED “INFINITY FOCUS”. READ PART 2 HERE.
The city of heaven is a place of true restoration
The popular songwriter says that heaven is a place on earth, but that’s such a limited, inaccurate read of the real promise of heaven: true restoration. There’s no death in heaven, not even for blades of grass. We can lay down our fear of death — for what comes after is restoration.
The struggle that we are going through in the here-and-now will pass, and there is a moment coming when we will be completely holy, completely remade, completely restored. And there is real hope in that: all volatile rivalry will be put to an end, and God will remake this world.
And if you’ve ever wondered who is covered in God’s plan, know that the restoration is for you, for your life, and even for this world: all of it righteous and holy, all of it according to his plan. Every blade of grass, every monument, every waterfall, even every life. That is our great hope.
“For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.”
Hebrews 11 is an interesting passage: we read of men and women of great faith, from Abraham to Isaac and Jacob and Sarah and beyond. What is even more interesting is to note that all these people died without ever getting what they were promised in the present world, but it is very clear that their promises came true after.
They saw these things from afar, from a heavenly country. Their vision on earth wasn’t filled with the cities they’d left behind — the cities in their past, the cities in their rearview; instead, they were looking for a better country, a heavenly one. And for this, God was not ashamed to be called their God. He prepared a city for them, a heavenly city. A city that God has prepared not just for them, but for you and for me as well.
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