DEVOTION – FRIDAY,
JULY 27, 2012
“Supper in Heaven”
BY
GREG LAURIE
Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are
called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ ” And he said to me, “These are the
true sayings of God.” - (Revelation 19:9)
I like the word “supper.” That is what they call dinner in
the south—not dinner, but supper: Y’all coming to supper? . . . Wash up
for supper.
I remember hearing this when I was a kid growing up with
my grandparents. They were from Arkansas, and my grandmother made everything
from scratch. My grandfather literally would kill the chicken for Mama Stella’s
fried chicken, which she would serve with southern dishes like black-eyed peas,
collard greens, and her crowning achievement: biscuits.
The Bible tells is in Revelation 19:9, “Blessed are those
who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!” (I wonder whether the Lord
might just put Mama Stella to work up there. I could just see her making her
biscuits.)
Can you imagine a feast like this, sitting around with
those great men and women of the Bible? Moses, could you hand over the
manna, please? Maybe we should have that for dessert. . . . Elijah, my meat is
a little undercooked. Could you get a little fire on that for me?
Heaven not only will be a gathering of the great men and
women of the Bible, but heaven also will be a place of resurrected
relationships. We will be reunited together with our loved ones who believed in
Jesus and have gone before us.
If you have lost someone unexpectedly, you long to
reconnect. You long to finish those conversations. You long to have new ones.
There were new adventures you planned on having. In heaven, that all will be
sorted out.
There are relationships you have had with people in which
you will be able to pick up where you last left off. That is what heaven will
be like. That is what we have to look forward to in heaven.
Summary sentence: Heaven means resurrected relationships!
Tags: Heaven, Marriage supper of the Lamb
Copyright © 2012 by Harvest Ministries. All rights
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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