Heaven Is
Better Than This
Pastor
Cornelius R. Stam
A large percentage of the people of the world wake up every morning with some kind of ache or pain. If you are one of the many victims, with some infirmity of the flesh, perhaps you will agree with the little chorus which says: “Heaven is better than this.”
The Scriptures tell us that “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now” (Romans 8:22). Note the expression: “the whole creation.” This takes in the whole world; no one is excluded. Indeed, the very next verse goes on to say to Christian believers:
“And not only they, but ourselves also… even we ourselves groan within ourselves… waiting for… the redemption of our body.”
No doubt many of us feel like crying out with the Psalmist David, “Look upon mine affliction and my pain” (Psalms 25:18). In spite of all sorrow, trouble and pain which the child of God must endure, however, he can be assured with the Apostle Paul that: “our light affliction, which is but for a moment [comparatively], worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (II Corinthians 4:17). When we go to be with the Lord we will no longer be living in “this earthly tabernacle,” but will have “a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (II Corinthians 5:1). Paul even adds that as Christians we earnestly desire “to be clothed upon with our house [our new body] which is from heaven” (II orinthians 5:2).
Finally, St. Paul declared that “to depart, and to be with Christ… is far better” (Philippians 1:23); far better, not only than all earth’s sorrow and trouble and pain, but far better even than earth’s greatest joys and its dearest treasures. How wonderful it is to know that “Christ died for our sins,” to have a light beyond the grave, a hope beyond the tomb! Surely “heaven is better than this!”
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