Heaven Is Better Than This -
by 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” (Rom. 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” (Psa. 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 Cor. 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 Cor. 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 Cor. 5:2).
Finally,
St. Paul declared that “to depart, and to be with Christ… is far
better” (Phil. 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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