In my Fathers house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. [John 14:2-4]
"Discovering Heaven"
The scientists at Exedor Laboratories got the strangest
assignment they ever saw one day in October. The company specialized in using
scientific research to find out the big mysteries of the universe and they had
done very well in the last few years. The project they received that day though
was the strangest of them all and the customer who ordered the research was
very mysterious.
Hector, the lead scientist read the assignment to his
research team. All of the scientists put down their microscopes and their
special glasses for examining things that need to be examined and buttoned up
their white coats to listen.
This assignment will be the most
difficult of all we have done, gentleman. Hector said in a slight German
accent. We are to research the existence of Heaven. We are to gather
information from every source, every religion all around the world and prove
scientifically that Heaven exists and then provide to our customers details of
what it will be like and how to get there.
Well, the staff was
pretty confused by their assignment but they got right on it. Before long, they
were fanning out into the libraries and around the world to find proof of the
existence of Heaven. Georgiou found that the Heaven called Nirvana is not
really a place at all but an afterlife where you stop existing and get absorbed
into a great nothingness.
That wont do
Georgiou. We would have to prove that this Great Nothingness exists
and how to get there. Besides that sounds more like a recipe for chicken soup
than heaven. Hector responded sarcastically. The big religions all seemed
to have similar results where the followers worked for all their lives really
hard or over several lives only to get sucked up into some nothingness that had
no location and no witness that this place really existed. Then came the silly
ones.
Here is one where after you die, you go to a large roller
rink where you play roller dodge ball for eternity. Philippe reported.
Here is one where you get your own planet and you get to have
hundreds of wives and you become a god yourself. Sydney read from his
clipboard. Hector I dont know about this one. I cant keep up
with the wife I have, hundreds just seems silly. He concluded and Hector
agreed.
Here is one where you where mouse ears and go on rides
for eternity. Reported Reginald.
Thats not heaven,
thats Disneyland! Hector objected. Gentlemen, these are all really
dopey heavens. I want something we can verify, something that is worthy of a
persons eternal soul. Something that doesnt sound like a comic book. Find
me a heaven that can be verified with witnesses. And he sent his
scientists out for another month of research. Finally, they gathered for their
final reports and it didnt go much better. Scientist after scientist
presented their report but there was no proof.
We have to have a
witness, someone who has been to heaven and came back to give us the details.
Does anybody have such a heaven?
I do. The shy voice
from the back. It was Lucy, the daughter of Reginald who was only in the fifth
grade. She wasnt even a scientist but Hector was desperate.
Then share your findings with the scientific community Lucy, come speak
into the microphone. The little girl walked to the front carrying a
mysterious looking book in her hands. Then she spoke.
Its
all in this book. Its an ancient book of writings and listen to this.
Nobody can tell you about heaven except someone who has been there and
returned again to take you there.
EXACTLY! Hector
shouted with excitement. Read more little girl.
Ok said Lucy and she read In my Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye
know, and the way ye know. Lucy finished reading.
Who said
these words? This person is the witness of what Heaven is like that we
need!. Hector said frantically.
Its Jesus.
Lucy answered holding up the book. And the book is the Bible that
everybody has in their houses. Jesus came down from heaven to take us there. He
tells us all about it. Listen to how it will be: she said and then she
opened the book to read again.
And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was
no more sea. And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out
of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. And it had a wall great and
high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written
there. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all
manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; and the city had no
need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did
lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the gates of it shall not be
shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
This is the proof we all need. Hector prepared. This little girl
has brought the evidence that everyone needs to know that there is a heaven,
what it looks like and that there is a witness and how to get there. Wait a
minute, how do we get there Lucy? Hector asked.
You accept
Jesus into your heart and you become a new creature and then when everybody is
ready, Jesus will come back and take us all there himself and we will have new
bodies and never get sick or die or be sad ever again, forever and ever and
ever. Lucy answered confidently.
Hector, I vote that we
all go to the lab and have Lucy show us how to get Jesus in our hearts so we
can go to Heaven for more research. Philippe moved and all the scientists
cheered for joy at the suggestion.
And Lucy did just that. She took
them to the chapel instead of the lab but one by one each scientist came to
know Jesus and became a new creature and they prepared their report that
pointed to the one place we all have but so many of us never look, the Bible
with the roadmap and proof that there is a Heaven and that God has a plan for
us to live there forever.
But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. [2 Peter 3:13]
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