I am working on building a new mansion. The house I live in is wonderful, don’t get me wrong. I love my neighbors. I have so many friends in my neighborhood it is a joy for me to come home every day. My house is big enough for me and my family and I call it my mini mansion but what I want is kind of more along the lines of a palace/castle.

I am sure you realize that I don’t have the income for a mansion. Nor do I want the upkeep. What I am talking about here is my mansion in heaven. I have been thinking about what I need to do to secure my palace/castle in the heavens. In researching this idea I realized that the Bible never really says we will get a mansion or a house in heaven.

John 14:1-31 ESV “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.”

So okay I don’t know where this mansion idea came from. I am thinking that King James thought it up since he was used to living in castles but nonetheless I am very competitive and if I only get a room in heaven I certainly want it to be luxurious. I was thinking that the best way I could ensure that was to do a lot of good works. So I was planning a whole slew of good works.

I was thinking about that the other day when a sobering thought entered my otherwise simple brain. I was worrying about having a luxurious place in heaven when I should be worrying about how I could serve the Son of God who gave up His throne to come down to earth. While He was on earth and in the ministry He didn’t even have a place He could call home and here I was worrying about what I would have when I went to be with Him? More than a bit silly if you ask me.