The city of God

I have been on vacation the past week with my family and when you go places like National Parks, you don’t have phone service most of the time. You don’t have it at your destination and you usually don’t have it on the way there either. (Depending on your drive)

I haven’t been the best about having my Jesus time while we have been gone. Half the days I woke up early just to work out, the other half I woke up intentionally to spend time in the word and journaling. When we were in Beaverton, Oregon a couple days ago I read through a passage in Revelation about the city of God. I wanted to share the passage with you a couple days ago but just i didn’t have the time to squeeze it in.

This passage about the city of God sounds majestic as you read through it. I just want you to read it, and really let it soak in. There are a couple of things I want you to realize as you read through it. The city of God will be 1,400 miles in length, width, and height. That is like half of the United States. Another thing, if you put your trust in Christ, your will enter the city of God some day. When you make that decision your name is in the book of life. Lastly, what we will actually see and get to experience the city of God, it will defy our human expectations. Which is amazing because the description in Revelation chapter 21 blows me away enough.

The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. The city was laid out like a square, as long as it is wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 1,400 miles in length, and as in width and high as it is long. The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jack the, then the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass. I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are it’s temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought back into it. Nothing impure will enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life. (Revelation 21:15-27)

This is such a stunning description of the new city of God. Be excited, be hopeful, and share Jesus with people so they get to experience this wonderful, description defying city as well.