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Day One: A Limitless Universe of God’s Glory

For most of my Christian life, I have had a defective view of heaven. I saw it as static, a place where we learn in an instant everything we need to know about God, and then spend eternity singing praise songs to God.

As I have talked to other Christians, I have come to realize that this is how most of them viewed heaven as well. No one wants to admit that this sounds boring and that such thoughts are actually a little depressing. 

Jesus said to the Sadducees (who had a defective view of the afterlife as well), “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God” (Matthew 22:29). 

Many conceptions about heaven float around the worldwide marketplace of ideas. But only a biblical vision of heaven, constructed carefully from passages of God’s perfect Word, will in the end prove to be true. To conceive of a heaven based on vain imaginings and false doctrine will only lead many further on a path to destruction. But to drink in a pure vision of heaven based on Scripture will build within us a hope that does not disappoint (Romans 5:5).

For the countless multitude of the redeemed, heaven will be an eternal education in the glories of God. The redeemed will drink from an endless river of his glory, eat from a delightful tree of his glory, tour a vast museum of his glory, view a visionary theater of his glory, explore a limitless universe of his glory, bow before the throne of his glory, and stare unblinking and unblinded into the face of his glory. The more that we meditate now on this limitless inheritance, the more fruitfully we will live in this present evil age, and the more we will add particular treasures to his glory. 

This treasure trove of God’s glory has dimensions and details we have yet to ponder. Only an infinite subject can engage our perfected minds for an eternity of time. And the glory of God is that infinite subject. Heaven will consist in one brilliant moment of discovery after another. And that is truly a thrilling prospect! 

Lord, thank you for inviting us to an eternity that will be more spectacular than we can even imagine. We know it will not disappoint us because you have created it. Amen.