This is part of a series. You can read the introduction first or view all the posts together.
I want to begin by amending my introductory post with another verse further down in the passage that should have come to mind (and didn’t):
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
[Philippians 1:23-24, ESV]
Paul’s attitude is shining so clearly here: to be with Christ is far better. Not just ordinary better, but far better. But to remain is more necessary, and so we do–but the division causes Paul to be “hard pressed,” or, as the KJV puts it very poetically, “I am in a strait betwixt two.”
Okay, now onto today’s reason why I want to go to heaven. 
I really had trouble with this post, partly because I’m not in a very writey mood, and partly because the reason that keeps coming to the forefront of my mind I want to save until the last.
But today: I want to go to heaven because it’s my home.
…having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth…. seeking a homeland… they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
[Hebrews 11:13-14]But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
[Philippians 3:20-21]In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
[John 14:2]
Usually when I read the Philippians verse, it makes me think my “real” citizenship is not to the United States. Which is true, but it’s rather missing the point of the verse. We are citizens of heaven. God has prepared a city. Christ left Earth to prepare a place for us. Heaven is our homeland. Heaven has many rooms.
In other words, heaven is the perfect place for us. It’s ideal. It’s prepared for us by a God who knows us better than we know ourselves. It’s a world without any of the fallen trappings of Earth–no corrupt governments, no wars, no hunger, no politics, no murders, no danger, no cemetaries, no hospitals, no democracies… the list goes on. When we’re in heaven, we can finally be “patriotic!” Our “government” will never do anything wrong or fail its citizens, because our King is perfect.
And–the idea of God Himself “preparing” something personally for us leaves me utterly speechless. I wish I knew a bigger word than awe.
