“to move or be moved to a new place.” That’s how a dictionary defined the word ‘relocate’.

In John 14:2 the Lord Jesus Christ is comforting his desciples with the words, “In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I AM GOING TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU.”

If you are thinking about places and if you are a reader of the Bible those words of the Lord Jesus Christ are coming to your mind straight away. They are coming to my mind.

“The happiness of heaven is spoken of as in the father’s house,” says the Matthew Henry Concise Commentary on the whole Bible.

Heaven has many characteristics. Here are just two of them: In Psalm 20:6 it says that heaven is a holy place. In Revelation 21:4 we read, “There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

Heaven is a perfect place: We read that in Revelation 22:1-5. Heaven is a place of perfect government. Revelation 22:3. Heaven is a place of perfect communion. Revelation 22:4.

If we have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we are going to be relocated to a place in heaven straight into the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ when we die.

And it is not only a place, but it is a mansion.

While sitting in a coffee shop in Taipa, I picked up a Reader’s Digest belonging to the shop.

Reading the article “News worth sharing,” (Reader’s Digest, October 2018), reminded me again that I have really news worth sharing.

The article “News worth sharing” contained three short news items, which I wrote down on a small paper bag from the shop with a borrowed pen. One item told the reader about a New Zealand Company and their successful Four-Day week. The second item was about an honest taxi driver, who returned an excessive “Tip”. The third item I cannot make out properly because of my handwriting, but it was something about robots.

The news worth sharing I have we find in the Bible.

A dictionary defines the ‘gospel’ as the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. And in Romans 1:16,17 the Apostle Paul says:

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”

With great interest I read actually the three items in the Reader’s Digest and I think they were really worth sharing.

But all the news we read about and hear about will soon be forgotten, but the Gospel, the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ, will never pass away. Matthew 24:35 says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”

The gospel is not only worth sharing, the Gospel must be shared. Are we sharing the Gospel?