The Promises of God: I Go to Prepare a Place
23 April 2025 · 1 min read · Verse Collections
The Bible's promises crescendo toward home: in my Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go, Jesus reasons, I will come again, and receive you unto myself. The preparation guarantees the reception.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
What is promised there
Revelation supplies the details: God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. The former things — the whole grieving order — passed away. Behold, I make all things new.
Peter calls it an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you — reserved being the banking word: named, held, guaranteed.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Living on the promises
The Bible's final page carries its final promise — surely I come quickly — and the church's oldest prayer answers: even so, come, Lord Jesus. Every earlier promise is a down payment on this one.
Hope of home is not escapism; it is ballast. People certain of the destination sail the roughest passages steadiest. Read the promises again tonight — the place is prepared, the tears are numbered, and the Preparer keeps his word.
