Our Heavenly Mansion

Have you ever watched "Extreme Home Makeover"? Basically, a family who has suffered some kind of calamity and shown extreme courage throughout it is chosen each week. A team of builders and friends come together and build their dream house. The designers take time to know each person and create rooms - especially the bedrooms - to what they think they would be best for each person. Last night, an Iraq war veteran who lost his leg and has come home to care for his four children was featured. The cameras pick up each one as they enter the bedrooms designed expressly for each family member. The look of wonder, speechlessness, surprise, feeling of being honored and just their trying to comprehend that this is now their own room is seen on each of their faces.

John 14:2-3
"In my Father's 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."

Imagine it. At the end of our courageous, winning struggle to live trusting God here on earth, we are shown the rooms He has prepared for us. I would think that He has designed them exactly with what He knows would be extra special for us. Can you see our faces? The wonder, the awe, the feeling that we are so loved, the anticipation that this is where we will spend eternity! Can you hear all the people in heaven, the cloud of witnesses, cheering us on?

And yet, that room in the heavenly mansion, will be miniscule in light of the fact that we will see God face to face. That we will live with Him, in His presence, forever. I have no words for that moment.