In 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov piloted the first manned space flight of more than a single orbit. After circling the earth seventeen times, he returned to earth and said that he had “looked into space and did not see God.” I could have predicted that, for God has kept heaven a mystery. The reality of heaven is in a different dimension than human sight. In fact, heaven may be closer than we think.

At this moment you are hearing my voice over the radio. If you don’t have a properly tuned radio, you can’t receive and hear a radio signal. But the signal is there whether or not you tune it in. It’s the same way with heaven. Heaven is real, but we are unable to experience it in this life for God has not yet tuned us to be able to see it.