A Place Prepared For Us - John 14:2-3

 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. - John 14:2-3

    C. S. Lewis once said that Jesus was either a lunatic, a liar, or the Lord. The reasoning went something like this: only a madman would try to convince others that he was in fact God. By this definition 2000 years of Christianity and all its worldly benefits, i.e. the development of schools, hospitals, universities, charities and what not would have been based upon mankind’s dedicated following of a lunatic; hardly a believable scenario.
    On the other hand, Christ may have just been a clever liar seeking great fame, wealth, and power. If that were the case He failed miserably, living in abject poverty and eventually being arrested and crucified for His mendacity and claims of divinity. In either aforementioned story line, Jesus gathered and has maintained millions of believers over the past millennia under the banner of Christianity, the largest religion in the world. Many of His followers even went to their deaths as martyrs for their faith. What a stunning loss of life if Christ was merely a madman or a liar.
    But Lewis’ third possibility - that Jesus was exactly who He said He was - would explain humanity’s long and deeply rooted faith that Jesus is indeed the Son of the living God and the second member of the Holy Trinity. When viewed from this perspective it is the only answer that makes sense! “. . . and behold, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.’” - Matthew 3:17.
    Having established that Jesus was neither a lunatic or a liar we can then extrapolate that the veracity of His words is beyond question or suspicion. When we take every true word that Christ spoke in the Bible then suggest that His claim to His divinity is somehow false, we futilely push against every truth of the Word of God. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’” - John 14:6.
    Christ tells us truly that He will come back and take us to Himself so that we may be where He is . . . in heaven! These are the words Jesus speaks to those who believe in Him. These are the words of the Lord and Savior to us who have been saved by faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone.
    Some have said that the words of John 14:2-3 are some of Jesus’ most reassuring words in all of Scripture. Think about the comfort of Jesus’ words that there is a place for us in His kingdom. And what a kingdom it is. “And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.’” - Revelation 21:3-4.
    There is a heaven and we know so because Christ has told us so. No matter where we find the words of Christ, we find the truth. There are no lies when Jesus speaks to us. The veracity of His words is without question. He tells us plainly - ‘if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?” Jesus gives us no false hopes. He alludes to no fool’s paradise. His word is truth! “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.” - Proverbs 30:5. We must not let the foolishness of the world convince us that God is a liar. Let the glorious truth of eternity in heaven by God’s very word shine its light upon us now and forever.