For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Eternity is said to be a really, really, really long time. I am quite secure in my faith in God, and I believe that after I die, I will spend eternity with him, in heaven, and with my brothers and sisters in Christ. And for me, that is scary; eternity doesn’t end. After a hundred years of praise and worship, then a thousand years of praise and worship, and then a million years of praise and worship, and then a billion years of praise and worship… for my human mind, that just seems crazy to me. Surely at some point us Christians will get tired of singing ‘Amazing Grace’ for the trillionth time?
We can’t understand eternity. Not even the smartest mathematicians can fathom eternity. We can aim for really, really big numbers in equations, and printing out the numbers in pi, but eternity is not calculable. Therefore we must conclude that when Jesus talks about ‘eternal’ life, he is talking about the closest equivalent of time in heaven, in that it doesn’t exist. Time in heaven, I believe, and without any sources because no one has gone to heaven and come back with any information about it, does not work like how time here on earth works. Seconds and hours and days, constructs made originally by humans based on the earth’s rotation around the sun, probably won’t be how we look at time.
Why? Because our bodies will be different and perfect. We won’t have boredom that comes with time because the glory of God will be so captivating. Time on earth is counting down towards the day we die; it’s a morbid perspective but one that everyone is aware of. It’s a finite, measurable time and really, really, really short. You have to wonder what God is thinking as he looks upon what we do with this really, really, really short time, when he knows we will have a really, really, really long time very soon to satisfy all of our desires we could ever have.
Not My Life 