Biblical Truth About Heaven Is So Much Better Than Our Idle Speculation
To the degree to which we stick to biblically taught truths, we can have confidence that we are envisioning what we will, in fact, experience in heaven.
Look to Scripture
We are wrong. The Bible is right. That’s how it works. So, to the degree to which we stick to biblically taught truths and reasonable deductions based on biblically taught truths, we can have confidence that we are envisioning what we will, in fact, experience in heaven. But to the degree that we wander from clear biblical teaching, to that degree we are wandering into speculation.
But here’s the happy thing. This sticking close to Scripture is not an imagination-diminishing or longing-lowering exercise. When we look at what Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 15, for example, about our resurrection bodies, or what Revelation 21 says about the new earth, or what Isaiah 35 says about our final future, or what Jesus says in Matthew 22 about marriage going away because the ultimate marriage has arrived and we’ll shine with angelic resplendence. When we read passages like this, we are being brought up into realities that soar higher than anything we could ever think up on our own.
Dane Ortlund is the author of Finally Home: The Christian Hope of Heaven.
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