He Entered

Into Heaven Itself

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after the judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Hebrews 9:24-28

How far away is heaven? Just a breath away, just an instant away. Just a second away. No one has the promise of tomorrow. The crucial question is whether we have admitted our need for God’s forgiveness of our sin and trusted Jesus as our Savior?

Make sure you have confidence in where you are going when you die. Then, when your time comes to die, you will be in heaven with Jesus at the next sunrise.

Sunset in one land

is sunrise in another.

Our Daily Bread – July 14, 2005