able, tremendous, sensational, spectacular and super." These are poor words to describe heaven. It is all but impossible to express the deepest feelings in our own experience in human verbage. You cannot describe accurately and adequately your love and joy. Paul was so filled with inexpressible joy that God had to give him a thorn in the flesh to keep him anchored to this earth. He was filled with ecstasy which would have been unbounding and unbridled. The Witness of John It is JOHN on the Isle of Patmos who gives us an extended account of heaven. He used symbolic language to convey to our feeble minds and lim ited understanding, something of the wonder and splendor of heaven. It is enough to make us hunger and thirst for more. It likewise corrects the wrong . views we have entertained of heaven. Some of us are relieved to know that we shall not have to wear long white robes and have crowns on our head~; twang on a harp and wave palm branches continu ously. If this is your view, then literature and art have been your tutors, not Scripture. Here are a few of the Scriptural truths about heaven: (1) Heaven is a place of inexpressible beauty-Rev. 21:1-22:7. Read this passage carefully and you will see how John exhausts symbolic language in order that we may probe our finite boundaries and gain a glimpse of heaven. The stones in the foundation of the New Jerusalem reveal every color of the rainbow and more besides. There is light, life and color in heaven. How little we really know about color down here. R. A. Weale gives the following report in the Scientific Review Section of the British Magazine, INTELLIGENCE DIGEST: Colour means light, and light means life. At night we can see, yet we see no colour and the world is drab and cold. Infuse colour into it, and it is transformed. Do we take 8
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