John 14:2

John 14:2. In my Father’s house are many mansions:

You are at home in Christ even now if you are a believer in him. Wherever you are, you are your Heavenly Father’s own child; and you have realized the truth of what David wrote in the twenty-third Psalm, "I will dwelt in the house of the Lord for ever." Usually, when we are singing that sweetly-solemn hymn, beginning - "For ever with the Lord," we are thinking about heaven. That is quite right; but "for ever" means now as well as the future, it covers time here as well as eternity in glory. We are with the Lord even now; whether we are down here or up there.

John 14:2. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

So that, when you go from this earth, you need not fear that you will be launched into space, or that you will have to plunge into the great unknown,