It's that age old debate and wondering, I'm not talking about wondering if heaven or hell are real...that is an entirely different debate (although I believe they are real). And you might wonder at the title, but honestly that's what a lot of people think in a sense. Heaven's boring. You get a cute little halo above your head, you play a harp. You sing about God. And sing more about God. And more. And it gets old really fast with all that 'wonderful' stuff. It sounds so boring that people even joke about hell. See you in hell, we're gonna party down there, no stiffness or sucking up to God and singing to Him all the time.
Mark Twain wrote a short story (his last published short story ironically) called "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven." In this story Twain goes on to describe heaven in exactly how a disinterested part of society views it. Its vastly huge, with multiple races and billions of people in it. Easy to get lost, impersonal. Patriarch figures like Moses were said to 'be sighted only ever few thousand years by the commoners if you were lucky'. Talking or getting close to Jesus was unheard of. In short it was a very boring existence of living in perfection. You could do whatever you wanted to, but it was just...pointless.
People think that; what point is there living eternally with God? Will we have no purpose? Won't it get old? I mean after the millionth year of staring Jesus in the face won't that get old?
Well I have a theory, as well as a few verses that seem to indicate otherwise. First, the time concept of Eternity is hard to grasp for us. We live such short lives relatively, and the idea of living forever is almost beyond our comprehension. In 2 Corinthians 5: 1-5 it states we will receive new bodies. Weariness, all the negatives associated with the bodies we have now will be gone.
Secondly and importantly, I have this theory that God is so in love with us that He will blow us away for eternity while we are with Him. I mean this is God we're talking about, surely He can solve a minor problem of keeping our attention for eternity if He loves us so much to come die for us! Just check this verse out:
"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows." Matthew 10:28-31"
You know I think we can sort of understand this in our limited sense. I think heaven is like that moment of eternity when you kiss someone you love for the first time. That moment drags on forever, and your never bored, its just the two of you, your scared, fulfilled, elated beyond words, trembling, and so full of joy and happiness and seriously that is what I think heaven will be like. That eternal moment when you first fall in love. That eternal moment as you play the masterpiece music of your soul's expression. We will be so utterly lost in love with God and each other, and He with us that we'll never notice or even have a definition of what time is anymore. We will be as we were always meant to be...fulfilled completely and continually, no empty void, no boredom. Complete with purpose.
I don't know about you, but I'm excited and I long for that day when 'heaven meets earth, in an unforeseen kiss...'
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