Jesus is our home; Jesus is heaven; Jesus is the prize.

The other night, I heard a message from the bible that I had heard before. This time it hit me in a new way. The message was from John 17 & heaven.

It's all about Jesus. He is the prize. He is not the pathway to the prize. He is the prize. There is nothing greater than being in His presence.  An earthly example is: do we marry someone because they will provide for us: give us a house, help us or because we want to be with them all the time?  Jesus is not a pathway to get to heaven (paradise). He is the greatest part of heaven.

There is a type of "Christian homelessness" because this world is not our home.  We will never be completely satisfied here.  For Christians, this life is the worst it will get ever get. For non believers it's the best it will ever get.
Heaven is our eternal home, so everything on earth is done with an eternal mindset.  God asked some friends of mine to sell their beautiful home. They obeyed.  They are not living attached to material possessions. 

John Piper once asked a question
 “The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—
is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the
friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and
all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties
you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no
human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with
heaven, if Christ were not there? ”
― John Piper, God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself