Company coming! Hooray! Today is the day my sister (she is not really company) is coming to stay with me for 11 whole days!!! I am so excited! I even like to buy magazines for her to read while she is here, and you can be sure she will bring some to me, too. We "get" each other quite well!
What do you do when you have anticipated guests? Clean your house? Plan activities for their stay? Cook their favorite foods? Buy special gifts you know they will love? Prepare their bed " just so?" For me, all of the above. Part of the joy of the visit is the preparation.
So that is how it has been for me the last few weeks. I am almost ready for her. Electric blanket on her bed (maybe we will need it someday), surprise gifts of matching dorky Christmas shirts ("Hello Kitty" was the cutest one I found) and chili fixins' are ready to put on to simmer! It will be a great day!
So, can you even imagine the preparations our Heavenly Father is making for us? When we see Him face to face and see the marvelous place He has prepared for us? I just know every detail will be perfection! After all, He told us there were many mansions there, so I know there will be lots of room. Imagine the things you enjoy here on earth. Will they be there? I don't pretend to know that, but I do know He gave us loves here on earth and He is not the kind of God to deny us good things. Wow! He is the King of all good things, since He created them! Your dear family? I can't imagine heaven without them. How about your beloved pets? Let's not argue pet Heaven here. I choose to believe God provides for that love, too. In my heaven, Carlo, Alexis, Henry and Baylor are there. Am we really supposed to try to figure out what heaven will be like? Probably not an assignment God gave us, but I do like to let my imagination go there some days. I hope you agree that heaven will such an extreme, God-infused, magnificence that our human brains can't comprehend! It will be the magnification of all the joy we have ever felt on earth! What I want us to dwell on, ever so briefly, is our Heavenly Father eagerly preparing our place in heaven with Him! Maybe there could even be chili!
"In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you...I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:2-3
"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
Pray:
Father, give us joy in imagining the beautiful heaven You have gone to prepare for us. Thank you for giving us a special time on earth to treasure the blessings of loved ones who come to see us.
Amen
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