Streets of Gold

This is the "street of gold" that is my backyard today, minus the glow factor.  It is simply, brilliantly beautiful.  And it gives me a hunger to see that "street of the city . . . pure gold, transparent as glass", that we read of in Revelation 21:21.  Can anything be more breathtaking than my backyard at this very moment?  Yes, and it awaits those who know Christ as Savior, who have trusted Him for salvation, whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.  

"If then you have been raised with Christ, set your minds on things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God" (Colossians 3:1).  "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:4-7).  

So you see, these streets of gold, far more glorious than my backyard, hard as that is to believe, are our future because of Christ.  But more glorious than that is the truth that we will finally see Him face to face, whose glory is far beyond all that we can ask or imagine.