What's heaven like? The truth is I don't know but the more events I see happening around the world the more I believe it won't be that long until I find out. So I find myself anticipating and wondering what it will be like.
The Bible tells us of streets of gold, the crystal sea, the tree of life, and many other small details that we can start piecing together a picture. But I wonder about what it doesn't say. Our lives on earth are pretty simple, as Christians we have church, work, our families, time with friends, and building our relationship with Christ as well as reaching out to others. How many of those things will translate to heaven?
In heaven we'll dwell with Christ, so I can't imagine any need for church. We'll constantly be with other believers, we won't need to go to a building to find that fellowship. So if there's not church what is there?
Will there be jobs? I don't know. But I like to think there will be, I'm not sure what exactly there will be but in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were tasked with taking care of the animals and the garden so I imagine that there will be some sort of jobs or tasks in heaven we can do. I don't think there will be need for a paycheck and since we know the Bible says there will be no tears in heaven I doubt any of us will dislike what we're doing but I don't think we'll be sitting idle either.
What about our families and friends? The body of Christ, the church, is our family, our brothers and sisters in Christ, God is our Father, so our families and friends will still be part of our lives because they will be the people we're in heaven with. For many of us that means our families will be different people then the ones we call family on earth for others our earthly families will be in heaven with us.
How about building our relationship with Christ? We'll be with Christ! (Can you imagine how amazing that will be?) So will we still have more to learn? I don't know but maybe, either way I have to believe that if we do have more to learn that process will look a lot different in heaven then it does here on earth.
And reaching out to others, again, we'll be in heaven! Who will there be to reach out to? I imagine we'll still be spending time with each other but there won't be anyone to tell the good news of Christ to since we'll all be together in heaven with Christ.
Anyways, I don't know what heaven will be like but I look forward to when it's time to find out. Thanks for letting me ramble, as always, my friends. I hope you're as excited to find out what God has in store for you, on earth and in heaven, as I am!
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