How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

Good morning and welcome to Our Daily Walk.

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I’ve never been there. I haven’t seen a picture of it. But I’m convinced that heaven is a very beautiful place. How do I know that? Because of what the Bible tells me.

Andy Pickens Bland wrote the music to the song, “How Beautiful Heaven Must Be.” During his life he published about 30 songs.

Bland was born in Dallas, TX, but moved to Hanceville, AL, where he spent most of his life. He worked a 100 acre farm and also did some work at a local sawmill. In his time at the local Baptist church, Bland helped with the choir.

One of the choir members was a Mrs. A. S. Bridgewater. She had composed a poem that became the words to the song about heaven.

The song became popular when Roy Acuff performed the song one night in 1937. Asher Sizemore of the Grand Ole Opry liked the song and eventually purchased the rights to the song. It remains very popular today.

Listen to the first verse and chorus of that song.

We read of a place that’s called heaven,

It’s made for the pure and the free;

These truths in God’s word He has given;

How beautiful heaven must be.

How beautiful heaven must be,

Sweet home of the happy and free;

Fair haven of rest for the weary,

How beautiful heaven must be.

A partial description of heaven can be found in Revelation 21:16-27.

The city is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. Then he measured its wall: one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Surely heaven must be a very beautiful place!

On Our Daily Walk today, may we learn to dream of heaven and visualize ourselves walking there daily as we praise God and enjoy one another. May we never miss an opportunity to share the news of this great eternal prize with everyone around us.

Our thought for the day: “If you are on your way to heaven, you will be busy finding others to take along.”

May God bless you on your daily walk.

© Our Daily Walk, Mike Baker, 2007. Permission is granted to copy these articles provided they are not sold and the author's name and copyright are included.