Anxious For Heaven

I used to be very anxious about heaven. I read an article that said, "If you are not content singing and praising God for hours a day, then you are going to be miserable in heaven, because that is all that we will be doing." The picture of sitting and playing some heavenly instrument and singing for eternity, does not seem very attractive to my natural mind. The Bible does not give us a lot of description regarding heaven, and we can see why. It’s foolish to expect that we will be able to understand what heaven is really like since we have no ability to comprehend it with our natural minds. Why would God attempt to describe in great detail something that we were not capable of understanding? There are two things I do believe regarding heaven.

First look at Ephesians 3:18 where Paul is trying to explain to us the full measure of the love of Christ for each of us. He says, "may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-". Notice that in describing the love of Jesus, Paul uses a four dimensional picture even though we live in a three dimensional world in this natural realm. We would portrait something in terms of length, depth, and height. These are the three dimensions that we can comprehend. Yet the things of the spiritual realm are beyond our natural understanding, and can be described as multi-dimensional. We may not understand it, but we can accept that it is a reality that we will eventually understand when no longer impeded by the things of this world. This is why God did not give a lot of explanation of heaven for us. We can neither conceive nor envision its reality, because it is beyond our own. We can know this, however, it is going to be far better than anything that we may be able to conjure up in our limited imaginations.

There is one other important factor to realize about heaven. While praise for the Lord will be a part of the experience, and it will just naturally flow from us when we are unencumbered by these natural bodies, that will not be the sole experience of being in His presence for the ages to come. While God is worthy of our praise, and that will be a natural experience, we will not be spending forever just playing instruments and singing without end. That implies that God is just going to take from us, and God is not a taker, He is a giver. Ephesians 2:6-7 says, " and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." This says that God will spend eternity showing us, individually, His exceeding riches and kindness.