Another Look: "City Life"

To be honest, sometimes I'm not sure what to make of the book of Revelation in the Bible (really, it is a letter and not a book). But the thing that struck me most about yesterday's passage (Rev 21:1-6) was the idea of God bringing a city down from heaven to earth. The next thing that struck me is that God wants to live with us in that city. Later in Revelation we find that the city will have alot of things in common with the Garden of Eden - so it will be the combination of the beginning of human history (Garden) and the end (city).



I like this, because I'm often torn between living in the city - with all the culture, restaurants, parks, coffee shops, arts, and the ability to walk to all these things, and living in the country - with an abundance of natural things, clean air, space, quiet, and simplicity (though driving everywhere is much more complex than walking). At Princeton I literally walked to everything I did during the week and I grew to love it. It made me much observant to my surroundings and led me to pray much more often as I walked alone from home to school to work and everywhere else.

Of course none of us can be certain about all the details of the life to come or "end times" (though If you write a book about it you can make alot of money - see Left Behind series) but whether in a city or a garden we know that God will meet all our needs, that he will be there to welcome us home, and that he will "wipe every tear from our eyes" (Rev. 21:4).