Our Destination

John 14:1-7
Revelation 21:1-4
Destiny and Destination.  Destination means a place to which one is journeying or to which something is sent. In this day and time we have GPS, we have this thing called MapQuest, we even have these things in our cell phone, a little lady called SIRI, she can help us find our destination and where we need to go.
The word destination is linked to the word destiny or future.  When someone is born to royalty his identity and destiny are fixed, simply by being born.  If a child is born to a King, his destiny is fixed - everything is fixed for him. Why? Because he’s born into a royal family.

For Christians, when we are born again we are born by the Spirit of God and we become children of God. Not only that, we become heirs. That’s royalty. As royalty, we have a destiny as well, and in John 14, Jesus tells us our destiny and our destination.
John 14 is a very familiar passage of scripture; Jesus is speaking to his disciples.  Jesus is letting them know he’s going to prepare a place for them.  And not just a place - he says in my father’s house are many mansions.

We have a coworker that passed away yesterday but he got an upgrade.  Right now Brother Ball is fixed. He doesn’t have to worry about being hooked up to the machines and taking chemo and all these things anymore.  Even like my parents - my Dad died at 81 with heart problems.  My Mom she had a lot of health problems, like diabetes and other things, and she died at 80.  They don’t have to worry about that now, going to the doctors and going through all these different things.  As it says in Hebrews Chapter 12 “we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses”, people are standing around looking down on us, telling us to keep going, stay in the race,  keep pressing on.

This world is not our destination, and this is not our home; as believers this is not our home. This is a temporary place.  It’s just like you’re riding down the highway, you see a rest area. That’s not a place for you to go and stay. That’s just for you to go and rest a little while, get refreshed, and then get back on the road. We didn’t come here to stay.

What did Thomas tell Jesus?  Lord we don’t know the way - how can we know the way - Lord we don’t know how to get there.  Jesus says if you want to get where you want to go, you’re got to go by me. 
How can we get to our destination? Like I said we have GPS, MapQuest, and we have cell phones talking to us to help us get to whatever city or whatever state we need to get to. But if we want to get to heaven, Jesus says “I am the way, I am the truth, and the light.”  We can’t go by Buddha, Muhammad or some philosopher. You’ve got to go by him if you want to get to your destination.

As believers, we know that our future and our destination is set. We know exactly where we are going.
Our purpose in life is to be transformed and our destiny is to live eternity in his presence. Our destiny is to be able to go home, to go to heaven. We’re looking to go home one day. Everybody you see here, everybody you meet will one day leave here so we have to make preparation.

In times past, when we would get ready to make a road trip we would get out our atlas, spread it out, highlighting the route. Now with GPS you don’t see a lot of people with big maps spread out.  As believers we don’t need MapQuest, we don’t need a GPS to help us get to where we are going.  Not when we’re talking about God and going to the place that Jesus says He has prepared for us.  And Jesus Himself is the Way.

We’re talking about destination, and John saw it.

As it says in Revelation John said I saw a new heaven….. the former things are passed away….
That’s what we look forward to as our destination. When we get to our destination we won’t have to worry.
John says I see this city, prepared as a bride for her husband.  When the bride comes in the church she has her wedding gown on, she has her hair fixed, she maybe has a veil on - she has everybody’s attention.  She is beautiful.

The groom is at the altar waiting and that’s the way is it with Jesus. He’s standing waiting for us. He’s waiting for His bride, the church, and he’s waiting at the altar no matter what we might go through. There may be some things that are happening now; we’ve talked about friends and loved ones that have gone on.  There may be some tears now.  But when we reach our destination there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, and no more pain.

In other words these former things are gone.  We’re looking to get there one day. To get to that place, our destination. Our destination is heaven, that’s where we are going, that’s where we look to go.

You need to know where you are headed, and how you’re going to get there.  If you were going to California you wouldn’t just jump in your car and drive.  You wouldn’t say, Well, I know California is in the west and I know the sun goes down in the west, so I’m just going to drive west. You might end up in Mexico or Oregon somewhere!

You need to know where you are headed, and how you will get there.

​Heaven is our destination, and Jesus Christ is the Way. I pray that he will allow all of us to reach that destination and one day to see His Son face to face.
~J. T.