Beautiful Saviour

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive ou to Myself, that where I am there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know." John 14:1-4

I've heard that in Jewish weddings when the groom was ready to wed he would start to prepare a house for his bride and himself to live in. As he builds, the bride is continually reminded that he could finish at any time and as soon as he is he will come to fetch her and marry her. What a rad reminder from the Lord, our bridegroom, that He is away building and as soon as its ready He will come for us and take us to our new home.

I want to understand that, like Abraham and the saints of old, who looked for a city not made with hands (Hebrews 11), whose hope and future was not in this lifetime but in the one Christ will bring when He comes back, whose citizenship was not of this earth but heavenly.

"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." Ephesians 3:20

"I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be always!" How amazing, oh my love!