Heaven Will Not Be a Boring Place!
Eternity is a very hard concept to grasp. Is eternity time without beginning or ending, or is it a dimension beyond time? How can anyone grasp timelessness?
Here is a question every Christian has asked themselves. Will heaven eventually become a boring place? After all, doing the same thing forever and ever can become boring after a billion years. Surely, there will be other exciting things to do. Are we not creative beings? Do we not all like to discover new and exciting things?
But I have always thought of endless time this way. If God could keep me so busy in this life, in this fallen world, that I do not have the time to do all the things I want to do, how can he not also do so in heaven?
After all, he is God, the creator of worlds.
Glimpses of Eternity, not Boring.
But the Bible makes it very clear that there is such a thing as eternity, timelessness, and never-ending. This biblical truth thrills me beyond words, and I look forward to it. That greatest of all verses, John 3:16, ends with, “But have everlasting life,” not everlasting boredom.
In Ecclesiastes 3:11, God “has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” It seems to me that the least that verse means is that God intends for us to be aware of a reality of a kind of eternal time or non-time. Heaven will be an eternal NOW! God created time. He does not live in time. So, one day, neither shall we. Try wrapping your brain around that one. It is like trying to grasp the wind. As King David said as he tried to comprehend time, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it” (Psalm 139:6). There are some things best to rest in and not query about.
The great thinker C.S. Lewis, who could put a ton of meaning in an ounce of words, said, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
In other words, both our experiences and the Bible suggest that there is a reality beyond this world that is so immense and far beyond our current understanding that we cannot fully grasp it. However, one day, we will.
The bottom line is trust, faith in His infinite wisdom. God said it, and that settles it. A beautiful eternity awaits all Christians. Jesus, who ascended into eternity, said, “That is where I am, you may be also” (John 14:3).
One of the beautiful things about the Bible is that it gives us glimpses into heaven, eternity.
Revelation 21:18 reads, “The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald.”
This description alone of our eternal abiding place is enough to make you homesick for heaven. Nothing on earth can compare to it.
Heaven is where all blood, sweat, and tears end. We are home at last in our Father’s house. No sickness here, no death here, no graveyards here. Heaven is the great end of all suffering.
Here is a city of gold as clear as glass. While gold is the purest metal on earth, nothing compares to the gold of heaven, which shines with transparency. Its clarity symbolizes perfection, there is nothing greater. The Bible aims to convey the beauty of heaven, which is beyond anything we can imagine.
Supernatural Bodies for a Supernatural World
The Bible also helps us believe that heaven will not be boring by describing our new resurrection bodies.
I Corinthians 15:42-44 “So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.”
Our earthly bodies are perishable; they will die. However, on the resurrection day, they will become imperishable, glorious, and spiritual.
Some Christians believe that when they reach heaven, it will be so incredible that it will be beyond their comprehension. However, the apostle Paul alleviates this concern by reminding us that we will not have the same physical bodies in heaven that we now have on earth. While our heavenly bodies will resemble our current ones, they will be far superior and free from the limitations we experience now. These new bodies will be perfectly suited for eternity and capable of experiencing joys that we can’t even imagine in this world. Moreover, these joys will be unending.
Our Father’s Love
Jesus is getting at the very same thing in the high-priestly prayer of John 17:26 when he prays, “And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
Think about that, ponder, meditate upon it: “The love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
The perfect love we long for will fully be ours when we receive our new resurrection bodies. In that state, we will be able to love and worship God as we have always desired. While we can experience this love in part now, one day, we will experience it fully, “face to face.” The love that the Father has for the Son will also be the love we have for the Father. Such love could never be boring!
Respectfully,
Dr. Robert Bryant