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Heavy Hearts, Heavenly Home
What do you think about when you think about Heaven?
It’s an interesting question.
And if you asked this question to many people they might talk about a reunion with those who have gone before.
They may start talking about the streets of gold and the marriage feast.
As believers, our hope and goal is to dwell with God for ever.
That is to live in his heavenly home for all eternity.
When we think about heaven, we need to understand that heaven is the dwelling place of God.
So where ever God is that’s where heaven is.
And though it will be nice to see those who have gone before.
To reunite with family and friends who have died.
The goal and purpose of heaven is to spend time with Jesus.
That for all eternity we get to experience the goodness, grace, and beauty of Jesus.
And the promise of this heavenly home is the hope that we cling to as we walk through this crazy life.
That one day when our life is over we get to stand face to face with Jesus.
We get to embrace him and thank him for his grace on our lives.
We know that if we trust in Jesus we get to partake in the beauty of heaven.
So even when we have heavy hearts, we do have a heavenly hope.
And in the passage of John we are going to look at today, Jesus is going to use this promise of heaven to help comfort the disciples.
He is going to use the promise of reunion as an anchor for their sole.
Because at this point in John’s gospel the disciples are a mess.
They are confused, anxious, and doubtful.
So Jesus is going to provide them with hope and comfort them in this time of trouble by pointing them to himself, and the hope that they can hold on to.
Trust Cures Trouble
Here Jesus comforts his disciples b/c he knows that they are troubled.
They are anxious, confused, and stirred up b/c of what Jesus has been telling them.
Think about it, Jesus told that he is going to be betrayed by one of them.
That he is leaving them.
And when Peter stands up and claims that he is going to follow Jesus to the end, they find out that Peter is, in fact, going to deny Jesus.
This is cause for trouble in the hearts of the disciples.
So Jesus tells them, don’t be troubled.
Don’t be stirred up.
As Jesus is facing the reality of his death.
The trouble in his own heart.
He lays that aside to comfort his disciples.
In fact, one of the things that I want you to notice in Jesus’ farewell to his disciples is that he brackets it with telling them not to be troubled.
Here in John 14:1 “1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled.
Believe in God; believe also in me.”
and also in John 16:33 “33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace.
You will have suffering in this world.
Be courageous!
I have conquered the world.””
He knows the road and challenges that his disciples are going to face.
He knows the difficulty that lies ahead.
And Jesus wants his disciples to know that they don’t have to be overcome with turmoil.
They don’t have to be overwhelmed with his leaving, but how do they combat weariness.
How do they fight against being overwhelmed.
They trust.
They believe.
Jesus tells them to believe in God and believe in him.
This is an imperative.
In order to overcome trouble, anxiety, and fear they need to trust.
They have already trusted him.
They have followed him around for 3 years witnessing his work.
They need to continue to do what they have already done.
Trust in Jesus.
Even in the darkest of nights we need to trust Jesus.
We can’t deny that the world is full of trouble.
It doesn’t take long watching the news or scrolling through social media to see that this is a troubled world.
The world is filled with physical trouble.
Sickness, disease, death.
Cancer and illnesses.
School shootings and murder.
Aging and other ailments.
What the cure to not being overwhelmed by physical trouble?
Trust in Jesus.
There’s also spiritual trouble.
As followers of Jesus, we encounter spiritual warfare.
We are attacked by the spiritual enemies of God.
There is trouble in our temptations that want to drag us away from godliness.
There are distractions that want to keep us away from prayer and fellowship with God.
We have friends and family that are lost and don’t know the goodness of God.
When we face spiritual trouble, how do we overcome it?
Trust in Jesus.
There is also trouble that comes from being obedient to God.
We can be outcast or shunned by family and friends.
We can run the risk of being defamed or rejected by the world.
We can lose our businesses or jobs for taking a stand on truth.
There are some brothers and sisters that risk being jailed or having their life taken b/c of their obedience to Jesus.
How do we overcome the trouble of obedience?
Trust Jesus.
The cure for trouble is simple.
But it’s not easy.
We need to believe.
We need to trust.
We need to hold fast to who God is and what he has done.
At bible study on Wednesday, we looked at 2 Peter 1:3 “3 His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”
God has equipped us with his power, and set us up for success to live a life of godliness b/c of his own glory and goodness.
God has never abandoned us.
He has never forsaken us.
and in our trouble he wants to comfort us.
He wants us to lean on him.
To trust in him.
To believe in him.
Because he is our hope.
Now I want you to know and notice, that this isn’t just believe.
This power to not be overwhelmed is anchored in a person.
It is anchored in the object of our belief.
We live in a time and culture where belief is mold-able.
Where its cool to just believe.
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