I Was Wondering About Heaven...

Kids are thinkers.  They have questions.  When I taught the lesson about Heaven at our after-school Bible Club, they asked a lot of good ones.  Here are just a few.

Let’s see what answers the Bible has for them.

What will we wear in Heaven?

I think this one stemmed from the fact that Adam and Eve did not wear clothing when God first placed them in the Garden of Eden, and that it was okay. 

Isaiah 61:10 says, “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness…”  Revelation 19:8 also tells us that the Bride of the Lamb will “be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” Even though we don’t know exactly what that means in terms of what our clothing will be like, we can be sure that God always does what is appropriate and that we will never feel ashamed or embarrassed in Heaven. 

Will we be born there as babies?

Heaven is eternal, timeless, and in the spiritual realm- so age, as we know it in the physical realm in which we live, does not exist.  One thing we do know is that in Heaven we will finally be what God intended us to be- conformed to the image of His beloved Son.  1 John 3:2 gives us this wonderful promise- “…it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He (the Lord Jesus) is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”  1 Corinthians 15 talks about the fact that we will receive a new body- one that is immortal and incorruptible (so it will never grow old and die); one that will be fit for Heaven.   

How will we get to Heaven if we’re dead?

This is one that we really don’t have to worry about.  2 Corinthians 5:8 assures the believer that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.  The Lord Jesus has taken the responsibility upon Himself to “present you faultless before the presence of His glory…” (Jude 1:24).  Just as you trusted the Lord Jesus to forgive your sins and give you eternal life, you can trust Him to take you safely home to Heaven. 

This is a story that I like to tell the kids:

When our two oldest children were small, we had some friends who lived just down the block from us.  We spent many enjoyable evenings in their home.  We would take our kids’ pajamas along with us, and after supper we would have the kids change into their pjs.  As it got later, we would lay the kids down on one of the beds and they would fall asleep there.  When we were ready to leave, my husband and I would pick up our sleeping children and carry them home.  We would tuck them safely into their own beds.  When they awoke, they found themselves home.  When they closed their eyes at our friends’ house, they had no worries about how they were going to get home.  They knew they could trust their parents to work out all the details on that end. 
It is much the same with our Heavenly Father.  As believers, when we close our eyes for the last time on this earth, we can know that when we open them, we will be safely home in Heaven.  Exactly how our Father gets us home is not really important.  We can rest in the fact that He will, according to the promises He has given us in His Word.  

"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man 

the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

(1 Corinthians 2:9)