10 Ways Heaven Will Be A Blast

Ever thought that Heaven might be boring. I mean the concept of an eternal worship service just doesn’t really light my fire. Don’t get me wrong. I am not being irreverent or dishonouring of God, I just think the traditional concept that we are going to walk around on clouds with harps for all eternity is not particularly appealing to me.

Mark Twain’s famous story of Miss Watson, a rather stodgy old fuddy-duddy. She began to tell Huck Finn about heaven, and Huck later mused: “She said. . . she was going to live so as to go to the good place. I made up my mind I shouldn’t try for it. But I never said so, because it would only make trouble and wouldn’t do no good. Now she had got a start, and she went on and told me all about the good place. She said all a body would have to do there was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t think much of it. But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and, she said, not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me to be together.”

Then I got to thinking:- If Heaven is boring it would have to be because God is boring. That is utter nonsense. Why is that utter nonsense. On what basis can I come to that conclusion? Good question.

Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand.

He made

our taste buds,

adrenaline,

Sex and our sex drives,

our ability to laugh

our ability to appreciate beauty

the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains

joy

the feeling of exhilaration

Our Imagination..

All this was made by the very God we accuse of being boring. Are we so arrogant as to imagine that human beings came up with the idea of having fun, of enjoyment? Heaven is God’s home, the dwelling place of the One who is infinite in creativity, goodness, beauty, and power. How could the home of someone like that be anything less than thrilling?

All secondary joys are derivative in nature. They cannot be separated from God. Flowers are beautiful for 1 reason – God is beautiful.

Rainbows are stunning because God is stunning.

Puppies are delightful because God is delightful.

Sports are fun because God is fun.

Study is rewarding because God is rewarding.

Work is fulfilling because God is fulfilling.

Every other joy will be derivative, flowing from the fountain of our relationship with God.

John Donne said, “No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God.”

Or as Randy Alcorn puts it, “The day I die will be the best day I’ve ever lived.”

10 reasons why heaven will be a blast.

1 We get a new body

2 Corinthians 4:5 – talking about our bodies

“While we live in this earthly tent we groan with a feeling of oppression. It is not that we want to get rid of our earthly body but we want to have the heavenly one put on over us so that what is immortal will be transformed by life”

In heaven – won’t be mystical pieces of cloud, Spirit people, floating along. We will actually have a body. The limitations, sickness, disease hassled that we had with earthly bodies will be gone.

2 We get to live in a custom-built house.

John 14:1-3 Jesus says

“I go to prepare a place for you.”

Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us- custom-built house.

3 We get to eat great food.

Who likes to eat?

Mathew 8:11

“I say to you that many will come from the east and the west and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven.”

Revelation 19:9

“And the angel said to me ‘Blessed are those that are invited to the wedding supper of the lamb.” And he answered – “These are the true words of God.”

Talking about mother of all buffets

Think of best restaurants – this is going to be the best buffet

Marriage supper of the Lamb – eat and feast

Can’t get fat in heaven – How good will that be?

Heaven is going to be a blast because it is a party

Devil has made hell out to be one big party

In the world people believe going to be one great big party in Hell

– right concept but just wrong part of eternity. Heaven will be a blast – going to be a feast

· Be there with relatives, friends,mates – awesome. One big party in Heaven.