Question:
Dear
Where
is heaven and why can’t we see it or find it?
Sherry
Answer: Dear Sherry,
Heaven
is not bound by space or time. It is
not a place. We humans think only of
space and time because we are captives of space and time.
Heaven is where God “is”—and it is not a place because God is
everywhere, and not limited to space or time.
He cannot be somewhere at the exclusion of somewhere else.
For example, he hears hundreds of millions of prayers at the same
time—his “switchboard” is never overloaded.
Heaven
is being in God’s presence—whatever that means (and we humans don’t know
exactly). We like to talk about
streets paved with gold, St. Peter by the gate, playing harps, etc.—but all of
that is sheer speculation. We will
know God’s kingdom of heaven only when we inherit it, by his grace.
In
Christ,