Heaven is good because it is the Kingdom of God where believers will spend eternity with Him. It is a place where mourning, crying, pain, and death will no longer exist.
"Good" is an understatement for how Scripture describes Heaven. First Kings 8:30 presents Heaven as the dwelling place of God, where His throne and presence are. Heaven is a place of perfection and God's glory. Jesus promised His disciples in John 14:2 that He was leaving to go prepare a place for them in Heaven and that they would join Him there someday. The apostle John's vision of Heaven, recorded in the Revelation 21 and 22, gives us many of the Biblical details about Heaven, including the Heavenly city, the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is described as being full of God's light, having streets of golden glass, and walls of gold and colorful jewels. The river of life runs through the city and the tree of life bears its fruit for "the healing of the nations" (Revelation 22:2). In Heaven we will experience eternal life without any tears, sadness, crying, pain, death, or fear. Heaven will reunite us with believers who have died before us and, most wonderfully, put us face to face with our Savior, to live in His presence forever.
"This is heaven!" Whether someone says that about a piece of rich cheesecake, a day on the beach, or a quiet day on the couch, "heaven" is the go-to word to describe something good. And it will be even better than we can imagine.
Though we have many questions about heaven or what life will be like there, we know enough to know that it is good—and far more than we can think of. It is a place of absolute peace and perfection. It is a place where pain, sorrow, and sin are gone forever (Revelation 21:4), where God’s presence fills everything (Psalm 16:11), and where joy and worship never end (Revelation 7:9-10). Heaven isn’t just “good”—it’s the ultimate fulfillment of God’s promise, a reality so glorious that even our best earthly pleasures are only a shadow of what awaits us.
The reality of heaven comforts us in a world full of pain and chaos. The thought of our eternal home can help us move forward when the world seems overwhelming and hopeless. It gives us eternal perspective. It should also spur us to share the Gospel with others so they, too, can avoid eternal suffering and separation from God and instead gain eternal life in heaven.