Seeking a Heavenly City

In every generation, the people of God have endured hardship in this world by remembering that their hope is not bound by this world. Today, R.C. Sproul encourages Christians to keep their focus on their heavenly home, where Christ is.

The saints of the Old Testament looked beyond the grave. Even as Job, in the midst of his torment and suffering, said, “Though He slay me, yet will I serve Him. For I know that my goel—I know that my Redeemer—lives, and I shall see Him standing on that day.”

The Old Testament patriarch did not have the benefit of the historic record of the resurrection of Christ or being able to study the words of Jesus as we are able to study them today. They had vague shadowy hopes in the future promises of God. But on the basis of that, they withstood torture and persecution and hatred and pain and suffering unimaginable because they sought a better country, a heavenly country, and they sought a city whose builder and maker is God. Because they understood that to depart and enter into heaven is far better.