Will I Be Bored In Heaven? (ii)

We see in Revelation 21:5 that Jesus makes all things new. And, what’s more, these things are trustworthy and true. If you trust Jesus for this life, for forgiveness of sins, for guidance, for whatever else, why shouldn’t you trust Jesus here as well? If you’re a Christian, no matter what happens between now and then, this is how your life will end up, this is where you’ll spend eternity. Everything is going to be new. Everything is going to be exciting. Nothing is going to be sinful, nothing is going to be boring. We’ll enjoy the newness of Heaven forever.

God makes another statement in verses 6 – 8, read those with me. God can say it is done, because He knows He will do it. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, He knows the end, so He can say, before it’s done, that it is. The end of verse 6 is a promise, and what a great promise it is. What is the qualification to enter this holy city? Thirst, and poverty. He’ll give water that satisfies and He’ll give it freely. What a promise that is! Remember this is what Jesus told the woman at the well, and now this promise is for all of us. Do you feel thirsty? Do you feel poor? Well great, you’re in! and, of course, the water that satisfies is Himself. Only Jesus will satisfy, are you thirsty for Him? Thirsty for your heart to be like His? Thirsty to see His justice? Thirsty to obey Him? Verse 8 makes it clear that if you don’t thirst for Him you’ll thirst for something else.

Verse 7 tell us that the one who conquers will have this heritage. What does that mean? It means that one who stays faithful to the end will inherit, earn, gain, be given these things. We’ll be sons of God. I’m not sure it gets much better. Imagine hearing this letter read for the first time. You’ve been told that persecution is coming, that people will quit the church, that Christians will be killed and that the devil will make war on you. And then what? If you overcome, you’ll be called God’s son. Doesn’t that make it worth it. I love how the Bible appeals to our senses. It doesn’t help us fight sin just be telling us that sin is evil and destructive, although it does do that, it helps us to fight sin by telling us about something better. You could quit the church to make life easy now, or you could overcome, and be called a son of God! I love that. If you trust God and thirst for Jesus more than anything else, then everything promised in this book is yours.

But if not, verse 8 warns us there can only be trouble. We all worship something. Jesus, or ourselves basically. If we worship ourselves we’ll be filled with cowardice, faithlessness, detestable thoughts and actions, and sexual immorality. If you don’t thirst for Jesus you’ll thirst for something like that. And you’ll end up where you belong, the lake of fire, the second death. If you reject Jesus, and reject righteousness, if your thirst for the toilet water of the world instead of the spring of Jesus, you’ll spend eternity where you want to be…away from Him.

We started be asking is Heaven will be boring? The real question, I guess, is will Jesus bore us for an eternity? Is there enough of Jesus to satisfy us totally, forever? It’s like a bird worrying he’ll run out of air, like a fish worrying he’ll run out of water. There’s the old song, ‘every day with Jesus is better than the one before,’ which is not totally true in this life, but it will be true in the next. I want to let one of my heroes, JE have the last word about this; ‘To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean’