All Souls Church, Langham Place - Preb. Richard Bewes
"...that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3 KJV)
I was once involved in a debate with some secular humanists. They raised what they felt to be the ‘unfairness’ of heaven (if it existed) being peopled only by followers of Jesus.
"Would you like to be in heaven - if it existed?" I asked. They rather thought they would.
"But", I pointed out, "the main feature of life in the next world is being in the home of Jesus Christ. It would seem very illogical for someone to want to have everything to do with Christ in the next life, when they have had nothing to do with him in this!"
Christ’s words in John 14 are full of reassurance for those who - in this life - have thrown in everything with him. Wherever he goes, wherever he is, we will surely follow to be with him. Think of a needle and thread. Wherever the needle goes, the thread follows. You belong to Jesus Christ? You are joined to him, threaded into him by a power that can never be broken, one day to be with him, for ever.
