Bible Poetry Reading Plan: Job 21-22
Heaven is a Real Place
Philippians 3:20-21 But our citizenship is in Heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him
even to subject all things to Himself. (ESV)
The Devil knows how important a proper perspective about Heaven is for forming an overcoming
mindset in Christians, so he has attacked that knowledge relentlessly throughout the centuries.
(He also has attacked our perspective on Hell). The Christian view of Heaven today is quite pitiful,
most Christians are bored by their concept of Heaven yet this should be the most exciting topic
in the whole universe. We’re going to spend our whole eternity living in this place! The following
shows the progression of Satan’s attack on the Christian perspective of Heaven. 1) Give people a
pitiful perspective of Heaven. 2) Make Heaven into this totally unreal place – like something out of
a Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercial – with clouds and little boy-girl angels wearing dresses,
with wings and harps just floating around all day. Once you do that to people’s view of Heaven,
they stop wanting to go there! 3) Once the Church’s view of Heaven becomes pitiful, Christians will
get bored of it. 4) Once Christians are bored with Heaven, they will cease to study it and they will
become uninformed. 5) When Christians become uninformed about Heaven they will live for this
life instead of the next one. This is exactly how most Christians live – for this life and not for the
next one. The fact is that Heaven is a real place – a physical place; with real buildings that had to
be engineered and designed and built, piece by piece; and there are real trees there, and real dirt,
and hot and cold temperatures; with real laws of physics and time. This is a place that we can learn
about and actually yearn to go to.
PRAYER and MEDITATION
1. Why does the Devil attack our perspective on Heaven (and Hell)?
2. Why is having an accurate view of Heaven important in your daily walk with God?
3. What are some things about Heaven that you have learned already? Ask the Lord to show
you how this has affected your walk with God for the better.
4. Thank the Lord for growing your view of Heaven. Ask Him to continue to do this for you.
