What will make Heaven attractive? Is it the pearly gates or the golden streets? No.
Heaven will be attractive, because there we shall behold Him who loved us so much as to give His only-begotten Son to die for us.
What makes home attractive? Is it the beautiful furniture and stately rooms? No; some homes with all these are like whited sepulchres.
In Brooklyn a mother was dying; and it was necessary to take her child from her, because the little child could not understand the nature of the sickness, and disturbed her mother. Every night the child sobbed herself to sleep in a neighbor’s house, because she wanted to go back to her mother’s; but the mother grew worse, and they could not take the child home.
At last the mother died; and after her death they thought it best not to let the child see her dead mother in her coffin. After the burial the child ran into one room crying “Mamma! mamma!” and then into another crying “Mamma! mamma!” and so went over the whole house: and when the little creature failed to find that loved one she cried to be taken back to the neighbors.
So what makes heaven attractive is the thought that we shall see Christ who has loved us and given Himself for us.
If you ask me why God should love us, I cannot tell. I suppose it is because He is a true Father. It is His nature to love; just as it is the nature of the sun to shine. He wants you to share in that love. * Do not let unbelief keep you away from Him. * Do not think that, because you are a sinner, God does not love you, or care