Hebrews 11:13-16: “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14: For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15: And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity toreturned.
16: But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a city.” Heaven is a city prepared for prepared people. It is the abode of the Supreme and Almighty God, the creator of all things.
It is a beautiful city, where the streets are made of gold and mansions are prepared for the saints who will wed with our Lord Jesus Christ at the last supper. God has reserved heaven for all the people who will serve him here on earth with the determination and focus to make heaven at the end of their life. The people who will make heaven must see themselves as strangers on earth and heaven as their eternal abode.
The people who ran this race in the Bible days were determined to make heaven, as a result were mindful of their actions and inactions, as they avoided in its entirety anything that is capable of derailing them from reaching that prepared city —heaven where eternal rest will take place. As Christians, we are all strangerson earth and must be determined and focused to m.
