Distracted Driving Awareness now has its own month—April. During this month, police will be especially vigilant, and public service announcements will fill the airways. Too many people have been involved in wrecks because they took their eyes off the road to look at some “urgent” matter on their phone.

This is a metaphor for the way a lot of us are living. Instead of focusing on our ultimate destination of heaven, which keeps us on the straight and narrow path, we become consumed with all the urgent matters around us. While we need to be about our Father’s business on earth, we must also anticipate our Father’s home in heaven. Pondering heaven will help us navigate earth. Rev. J. C. Ryle, a prominent nineteenth-century British theologian, said, “I pity the man who never thinks of heaven.”

The best way to keep heaven in our mind’s eye is to read and rehearse the truths about heaven found in the Bible. If we do that, we’ll live more joyfully and productively. Spend time in Scripture today reading one of the Bible’s great passages about our heavenly home.

Before we go to our eternal home we should try to become acquainted with it.
J. C. Ryle