Heaven

I'm reading a book by Randy Alcorn called Heaven. It's a wonderful book that describes what scripture says we will experience/live in Heaven. I urge anyone to read the book. It's given me new insight and encouragement in this world.

What is your concept of heaven?

"How happy are those who fear the Lord—all who follow his ways! You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How happy you will be! How rich your life!
Psalm 128:1-2 NLT

Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that there is a God and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 NLT

He died for us so that we can live with him forever, whether we are dead or alive at the time of his return.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 NLT"

Made for another world
"Most of us find it very difficult to want "Heaven" at all—except in so far as "Heaven" means meeting again our friends who have died.
One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: Our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world.
Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we not recognise it.
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world.
There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis

from the The Quotable Lewis edited by Jerry Root and Wayne Martindale (Tyndale) pp 286-87