Everyone's View of What Heaven Must Be Like, is Different ...

and yet the same.

Maybe, just maybe, the journey back Home isn't as complicated or otherworldly as many may think. Maybe it's not about the fears and hopes a songwriter expressed in the old hymn, "Finding It Home." Maybe, it's not about meeting masses of souls on celestial shores versus the darkness of this world; for that's not quite what the Bible says at all.

The Bible says wait on rescue from the Lord. The Holy Spirit says our deliverance is promised, not as a meeting of masses on a heavenly shoreline, but, really, as Heaven's army descending to meet us at a time of fiery trial in this world.

When Jesus returns to this world full-force, He will have all of Heaven's armies with Him. He is "I Am" (Yahweh), I Am Lord of Hosts (The Lord of Heaven's Armies); and He will deliver this world.

Just how that will look, in flesh and in Spirit, no one really knows. Maybe it's simple as our descendants, our children, fighting a great battle, in righteousness one day.

But something we know for sure is that Jesus is our sure Deliverer, and that rescue begins today, with faith, a belief, a thought.

Deliverance is on the way. Heaven isn't a distant shore, but is so very close in heart.

For now, maybe, our rescue from Heaven is simply in our relationship in Jesus.

And, one day, hopefully a ripened old age, maybe that relationship is ultimately as blessed as being swept up and away into loving adoptive arms on a cold winter's day.