We picture Him, as He taught the twelve, watching intently the expression on their faces to learn how far His words were understood.
Jesus had noted, then, tokens of heart distress.
John 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
The disciples felt His departure like a torture.
And it was then that He consoled them with such simple and glorious speech that all Christendom is the debtor to their agony.
They thought that His death was an unforeseen calamity.
Christ taught them it was the path of His own planning.
They thought that heaven was very far away.
Christ taught them it was but another room in the great home of whose many mansions this beautiful world was one.
He was not stepping out into the dark.
He was passing from one room to another in the house.
But the mightiest encouragement of all came when He told them, "I go to prepare a place for you."
This, then, was the purpose of His going, that love might have all things ready when they arrived.
When a child is born here, love has all things ready for it.
It will be the same when we awaken in eternity.
When a boy or girl comes home from the boarding-school, has not some heart at home been busy in preparation?
There is someone at the station, and the bedroom is arranged, and the lights are lit, and the table is spread, and all day there has been happy excitement in the home because James or Mary is coming home tonight
So Jesus says, I go to prepare a place for you.
I go to have all things ready for your coming.
And though there are depths in these words we cannot fathom and mysteries we cannot understand, they mean at least that love is getting ready to give the children a real welcome home.
~George H. Morrison~
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