New Earth!

For Friday, June 3, 2022:

1 Peter 3:22 NLT: “Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.”

The Bible oftentimes explains things using metaphors we humans can understand. As a child, I pictured God, a grandfatherly gentleman, on the biggest chair in heaven, the throne, and off to his right a slightly smaller chair for Jesus. Now as an adult, I doubt if they set up chairs in Heaven. Our spirit or soul goes to be with the Lord’s spirit. God has it all worked out.

Of course we get to God’s presence through his Son Jesus, who offered believers forgiveness of sin, making us acceptable to be in the Lord’s presence. Don’t forget to thank him!

Following the second coming when God restores the New Heaven and the New Earth, when we’re given glorified bodies and God lives among his people, we may need to once again set up chairs!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406