Fill the day, find something to do to pass the time, make work, entertainment, needed things and obligations. Then wake up tomorrow and do it again. Until a day arrives when you can’t, when the body can no longer do those things that you once, if truth be told, came close to detesting, and then you will miss them.
Fools that say there is no God fill their lives with these types of days, most of them instead of going out and doing, sit and watch on their screens as others do those things.
“And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.” (Isaiah 22:13)
Life can end for us in a moment, and nearly every aged person will tell you it seemed like a moment, life flashed by and is now coming to an end.
“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” (James 4:14)
We fill it with what we can, accepting our lot in life, content with the minor things, or at least that’s what we tell ourselves.
What’s your plans in heaven? After the days of Jacob’s Troubles, after we return to this earth, what’s your plans? I realize that is a question we cannot fully answer, but in part I believe we will have assignments, jobs if you like, and we will be expected to fulfill our obligations. How long before you begin to wonder if there is something more? A hundred years? Five hundred?
I ask this question of you, one none of us can answer, will there be monotonous repetition in heaven, will we desire more, will we ever try to find something to do just to pass the time until it’s once again time to get back to work?
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psalm 16:11)
Pleasures forevermore my friends, but does that mean continuously? That “thing” the unrepentant are always searching for, that fulfilling moment of exhilarating happiness, do you believe that will reside within us continually in heaven? Never bored, never looking for something to do, something to entertain us, always and forever content and happy?
To those of you who say yes, that it will always be wonder-filled and joyous, what do you envision. Something akin to a never-ending day at the fair? Every delight met, never frustrated, never angry, upset or bored stiff? Never again searching for more? Never another challenge?
I saw an old television program about a man who died and thought he went to heaven because everything he ever wanted was continuously available to him. He never made a mistake, he never failed, he always won. It wasn’t heaven that he went to though.
Is that your idea of heaven? You are glorified, continuously in the presence of the Almighty, nothing ever happens that you do not want to happen. Perfection exemplified. I don’t know, I have not been there and no one from there has ever come and told me what it’s like. But I have this truth.
“Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.” (Jer. 15:1)
These two, in essence, would have desired the Lord to act in a different way than how He intended to act. That should offer you, in at least the smallest way, the truth that heaven is not a continual ride on the Ferris wheel, that those pleasures forevermore may not be as pleasurable to some there as they are for others.
The closest analogy I can offer you is this, I do not like certain foods here, and I more than likely will not like them there.
“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.” (1st Cor. 2:9)
In His presence my friends is the only place we will experience fulness of joy, those pleasures forevermore are for those other times.
