Fix Your Eyes On Eternity: A 12-Day Devotional On Heaven And The New EarthSample

Sadly, even among Christians, it’s a prevalent myth that Heaven will be boring. Sometimes we can’t envision anything beyond strumming a harp and polishing streets of gold. Satan’s most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin doesn’t make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn’t expand life; it shrinks it. Sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there’s fulfillment, when there’s beauty, when we see God as He truly is—an endless reservoir of fascination—boredom becomes impossible.

If you picture the eternal Heaven as a disembodied state, you have reason to fear boredom—because God didn’t make us for such a world. But when you understand the meaning of our bodily resurrection and the new universe, and what it will mean to live with God, all thoughts of boredom will disappear. 

The New Earth will be a place where we’re constantly discovering—where everything is always fresh, and possession of a thing is as good as the pursuit of it. Yet it’s the place where we’ll be fully at home—where everything is as it ought to be and where we find, undiminished, that mysterious something we never fully found in this life.

We will no longer be homesick for Eden. We will experience at last all that God intends for us. Because the joys of Heaven will overflow from the multifaceted wonders of God, Heaven will be endlessly fascinating, just as God is infinitely fascinating.

Will we ever tire of praising God? Augustine said, “We shall not be wearied by the praise of God, nor by his love. If your love should fail, so would your praise; but if love will be everlasting, because the beauty of God will be uncloying, inexhaustible, fear not that you will lack power ever to praise him, whom you will have power ever to love.”

Heaven is going to be full of great surprises and astonishing new adventures as we learn more about God and enjoy His wonders in a new universe. Once we’re in Heaven, we’ll wonder why we weren’t even more excited about going there.