What Are You Looking For?

John 14 :1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

     John chapter 14 is probably my favorite chapter in The Bible.  I will talk about this chapter a good bit, because there is so much good stuff in it.  Today, I want to focus on the mansion.  Mansion is the word used in the King James version of the Bible.  Other versions read words like dwelling place and home.  Does it really matter. I have even had one friend tell me he couldn't wait to get to Heaven because he was going to have a huge mansion, and a big truck. 
     I look at it this way, I don't care if I have to live in a cardboard box on the street.  The streets are purest gold anyway, so that would be better than anything on this earth.  I don't care if I have to eat the scraps off the table, it would be greater than any food known to man.  I really don't care if I have to stand at the end of the line to meet Jesus face to face when I get there, I will have eternity.
     I guess what I am trying to say is that we don't need to dwell on what rewards we think we will get when we get to Heaven.  We are not worthy of anything outside of Christ anyway.  Isn't the fact that we will be with Christ, for all eternity, enough?  I look forward to that day, the day when I see Jesus face to face, when I see all of my loved ones that have gone on before.  The older I get, the more I realize that there are beginning to be more there then there are here.  I look forward to seeing my Dad again, without the pain he was in at the end of his life.  I yearn to see my grandmothers again, and my grandfathers I never knew, my Aunts and Uncles, friends.  I have often thought about how great the fellowship will be there, without the pains and struggles of this life.
     I hope that each and every person that reads this is ready for Heaven.  I hope all my friends and family are, but I know better.  If you don't know Jesus Christ as  your personal savior there is no better time than right now.