I Don't Understand

“However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him’”  1 Corinthians 2:9

“In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you also may be where I am.”  John 14:2-3

OK, call me dense or whatever you want... I keep hearing the phrase “it beats the alternative” when talking about enduring physical sufferings here on Earth and I don’t understand.  I can understand it when non-Christians say it because their time on Earth is as good as it will ever get for them, but not so for Christians.  Those who have put their faith in God through Jesus Christ have an indescribable life ahead of them AFTER they die here on Earth.  The Bible is VERY clear about this.  When I read Revelation 4 & 5 I am awed and amazed at what Heaven will be like.  I am overwhelmed with the power of God and His sovereign reign over all things.  I am like Isaiah when he saw the Lord seated on His throne, high and exalted.  All he could say was “Woe to me!... I am ruined!  For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” (Isaiah 6:5)  And when I read Revelation 21 & 22 I can’t even speak!  The perfection of Heaven and the New Jerusalem with God is more than I can comprehend.  It upsets me so much when the children of God through Jesus Christ don’t understand how precious they are to the Father and that He has unfathomable things planned for them even after their earthly death.  All I know to do is to pray that the scales on their eyes will fall away and that they will know deep in their hearts that God loves them and has an incomprehensible future with Him forever.  Even so, come, Lord Jesus...