"streets paved with gold"
“And the street of the city was pure gold…” (Revelation 21:21, NASB)
Context Revelation 21
Why did God pave Heaven’s streets with
gold? It’s easy to view it as
extravagance. However, a cousin-in-law
who works with road construction had interesting insight about paving material
in road construction. He noted that
people are always trying to use discarded material for paving roads. People have even tried mixing cow manure into
asphalt to make it go further. During
the first century, people would throw salt that lost its flavor out on the path
(Matthew
5:13).
Perhaps the real reason God paved the streets with gold is to show us
how worthless gold is in Heaven. It is
discarded and used to pave the streets.
The item that’s the master of many on earth
will be stepped on in Heaven (Matthew 6:24).
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