This Temple called Heaven

For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own.
JOHN 6:38

"HAS THIS WORLD been so kind to you," asked C.S. Lewis, "that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."' What he said holds true if you are God's child. Life as you know it will never be easy oro trouble-free. The problems you are facing, however, will someday dissipate in heaven's glory. But for those who do not know God, the best they will ever have is life now.
    Some 3,500 years. ago, Moses described a human life span as 70 to 80 year long. In spite of scientific advances, our life expectancy hasn't changed much. " You're not going to get out if this alive, " someone said. It's true, but then what? Then there's the hope of heaven.
   The Bible speaks of heaven more 400 times. Jesus said candidly that He had come from heaven and was to return there when His work as done on earth (John 14:1-6). He spoke of heaven from the vantage point if an insider who knew what was there and what it was like. Jesus Christ told His followers what to expect and how to get there.
    So what is heaven like? And in the face if our many trials and difficulty here on earth, what does heaven promise?
The apostle Paul writes, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us" (Romans 8:18). To the Corinthians he wrote,
"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen us temporary, but what is unseen is eternal" (2Corinthians 4:17-18).