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READING IN HEAVEN, ETC

 READING IN HEAVEN, ETC.

A FB friend asked me if I thought we would read in heaven because she didn't have time to read "down here". This was my response and since then several other friends have asked me to re-post it.
Of course we can. The actual translation of "in my house are many mansions" as in John 14 is "In my house are many rooms". I take that to mean heaven is one big house for the one big family of God with all these different rooms.
#1 the most magnificent library ever. Remember that John wrote that if he had been able to write down everything Jesus said or did, that the world could not contain all the books that could be written! But heaven can! God wants us to have knowledge. I think it was Hosea who wrote that "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
#2 the largest dining room ever imagined. The Bible says we shall eat angels' food and refers to the corn of heaven so I am thinking the longest fattest cobs of corn dripping with butter and salt because salt won't kill us there. And the butter will be non-fattening. I'm thinking the angels will grow this special corn in the soil of heaven, ain't nothin' could be better than that!
#3 The largest convention hall in the universe with ongoing lectures by our favorite Biblical characters. Joseph will tell us how he withstood temptation and kept trusting God when it seemed God had forgotten him. Abraham will tell us how it felt to think he was going to have to kill his only son, the promised Son, only to get to see the angel appear and stop his knife just micro inches from Isaac's chest.
Moses will tell us how he picked up that huge snake by the tail just before it turned into a rod. Daniel will tell us about all his dreams and also how it felt to spend the night in the lions' den using that big furry lion as a pillow and felt no fear because the lions knew he was "nothing but backbone".
Paul wil tell us how it felt to finally be healed of the thorn in the flesh.
#4 and since we now see things dimly through a glass but there we will see everything clearly, our understanding will be broadened and we will know why everything that has puzzled us for years will be made plain, why my 16 year old sister had to die in a car wreck, etc.
What a great place heaven will be, and since it is eternity we will have as much time to read as we will need.
© JOAN  ROWDEN HART 2023

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