Thursday, February 13, 2025

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“Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise” (Luke 23:43).

Yesterday we saw that the Lord Jesus told His disciples that there were many mansions in His Father’s house, and that when He left this world, He was going to prepare a place for them. However, the Lord Jesus did not often refer to the place where He was going, nor did He tell His disciples and others much about the place. Rather He said that He was going to be with the Father, and that when He came back again to this world, it would be to take all true believers to be with Him.

Heaven will be a wonderful place, and it will be beyond anything in this world to be in the Father’s house, but what will make it our home will be that the Lord Jesus is there as a Man. This is what it means, “I go to prepare a place for you,” in yesterday’s verse. His presence in heaven as a Man who has died for us and is risen is what makes heaven prepared for us. By being in heaven as a Man, the Lord Jesus has prepared the place for us.

In today’s verse, the Lord Jesus was speaking to a thief who was crucified with Him. The thief asked the Lord Jesus to remember him when He, the Lord Jesus, came into His kingdom. The Lord’s answer was that the thief would be with the Lord Jesus in paradise that very day. The Lord Jesus died, and the thief died shortly after. Both were together in paradise that same day.

Some people have beautiful homes, but what makes a home is not the beauty of the building, but rather who lives there. We will spend eternity with the Lord Jesus!

 

             
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