What has Jesus prepared for you?
Do you have a place in this world prepared for you? Every Christmas, my family traveled from the United States to Jamaica to be with my family. I was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. Every time I am overwhelmed at the love and time, and energy that my parents put into preparing their home for us to arrive. This got me thinking about the words of Jesus in John chapter 14, when he says to His disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled, do not be afraid, in my father's house, there are many, many rooms, and I am going there to prepare a place for you.”
He's telling them, first of all, you shouldn't be afraid of the future. Number two, there is a place for you; there is an eternal place for you. And number three, I am going to prepare that place. To me that means that he wants us to be with him. He is expecting us. and he is looking forward to us being with him in eternity.
There are many things about this that are a mystery. But for me, I know it is deep encouragement to know that Jesus is preparing a place for me. And maybe the preparation was the work on the cross in many ways it is and was and that work is done. But I know that those words encouraged my heart so deeply. He wants us to have joy and expectation and peace about the future with him because he wants us to be with him.
You might say to me, Wendy, wow. I don't have a place in Jamaica to go to, and I don't even know if I'm going to be in heaven with Jesus. I can tell you, my friends, you can know for sure that you will one day be with him. There is no reason that you cannot ask him right now. Right now in this moment!
Lord. I want to be with you in eternity. I want to be in that beautiful, prepared place where you want me to be. My life is yours. Amen.
He wants us to have joy, expectation, and peace about the future with him because he wants us to be with him.
John 14:3
“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.”