Forever Home in the Eternal Family of God

Encouragement for the Family of God by Kenton Cheek

30 December 2025

Reading From Revelation 21

And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

—Revelation 21:22-27

     The New Jerusalem, the holy city filled with only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will descend from the New Heaven to the New Earth.  What a glorious vision!  A city of glory and light and perfection.  I wonder what is referred to as the glory and honor of the nations.  Perhaps it is the people, a perfected, holy and glorified people with their resurrected bodies free of all disease and impairment.  We know from other passages of Revelation that people from every nation, kindred, tongue and tribe will be there and to me that will be a glorious parade of the sons and daughters of the Most High God. 

     But of course, the most glorious and honorable will be God Himself.  His desire, which we have known since the dawn of human history, to dwell in the midst of His people in perfect harmony, will finally be realized in all its splendor.  What a glorious future awaits all those who put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus.  The eternal family of God will never be separated from one another.  We will be in our forever home, at one with one another and at one with our God.  Be encouraged and be excited for our blessed hope!

“Father God, thank You for the bright vision of hope that You promise us in Your Word.  Your Word is trustworthy and true and nothing will every be able to separate us from the warmth and light of Your love in Your celestial Kingdom.  In the Name of Jesus I pray, Amen.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

—Romans 8:35-39

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

—Ephesians 2:6-7