How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

Last week, several snow days afforded me the opportunity to go home. Not to Paducah and my parents’ home and not to Dexter where I grew up, but home to Freed-Hardeman University. It was Lectureship week and all of my family was there except for me and my kids who were supposed to have school. So, when the snow started to fall in earnest on Monday evening, the kids and I loaded up and set out. About halfway to Jackson, I got the call I was gambling on: “No school for Putnam County Tuesday.” The kids and I crashed Jeremiah’s bachelor room at the hotel and headed for campus the next morning.

Many Blessings

My children were blessed to hear some of the church’s great speakers. They were able to spend time with grandparents and cousins and uncles and an aunt. They saw the result of training started through the Lads to Leaders program when the student speaker in chapel delivered a masterful lesson. They saw the beauty of God’s design for the church universal where people from all over the country and world came together to study His word and greeted each other with hugs and handshakes and smiles. They got to hear beautiful a cappella singing of praise for our Maker. Our daughter even got to experience a night in the dorm and a “free” Gano meal.

The Highest Blessing

But what I got to experience was a glimpse of how beautiful heaven must be. I saw and heard all of those same things that my children did. I relished in hugs of beloved former professors and classmates. I enjoyed being surrounded by my physical family and spiritual family. But what I truly saw was what all people should see when they see a group of Christians: the light of God reflected toward those around them.

It was with that realization that I began to understand how very beautiful heaven must be! Because what I was seeing was spectacular and yet it was only a reflection of the glory that shines forth from God Almighty and His Son. I felt like I got a tiny glimpse (marred by human imperfection, but beautiful nonetheless) of the splendor of the throne room of God.

I am so thankful for Freed-Hardeman–for my memories there, my education from there and, now, for the reminder of just how glorious heaven will truly be someday.

Revelation 21:23 “And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.”

Philippians 4:15b “among whom you shine as lights in the world”

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