God’s children will spend eternity with God. He will be the main attraction. Will their time with God be exceedingly and overwhelmingly boring?
Many people believe this, even so-called church people (though few ever say it). One pastor did say he certainly did not want to burn forever, but he dreaded eternity with God.
However, God created all the pleasures we enjoy.
1 Timothy 6:17 KJV
[17] …the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
And most likely new pleasures no one has ever experienced yet.
1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV
[9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Even sinful pleasures are legitimate pleasures that have been perverted.
We get tired quickly of the same pleasures over and over in this life. For example, watching the same movie again and again, eating only pizza for a year.
But there is no reason it has to be this way. What if you enjoyed every pleasure as much or more than the first time? What if, after you have been in the next life for a billion years, it seems like you just got there, that you just began?
And what if just being with God is a more intense pleasure than any pleasure in this life? And what if eternity with God is like a treasure chest with no bottom, and the treasure inside is God. One hundred billion years go by and you are still pulling new treasure out of the chest. And you have not even started yet.
Psalm 16:11 NKJV
[11] …In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
People will be in great distress for missing out on the kingdom of God.
Luke 13:28 KJV
[28] There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
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