Heaven

Where do we go when we die? What happens to us after we breathe our last breath? These are questions that everyone has pondered. The world offers many answers to these questions: from reincarnation, to becoming a ghost, to ceasing to exist. Bible believers, however, don't have to engage in these guessing games because we can know the answers to the questions not only where did we come from, but we can also know where we are going. In this video Don Blackwell explains the journey of the soul, tracing it from the point of conception into eternity.

"In the entirety of our work, we will actually want to imagine definitely beyond what we can achieve, both as a result of an absence of capacity and in view of opposition in the climate around us… [however] our most profound desires in work will happen as expected in God's future".

This statement from Tim Keller's book Each Great Undertaking catches so well why our work can once in a while be troublesome and disappointing. We can fantasy about doing brilliant things in our work, however at times our absence of capacity or baffling conditions keep us from doing as such. Maybe you know these dissatisfactions?

Anyway there is a second part to this statement - in the new sky and the new earth "our most profound goals in work will happen as expected". As Keller makes sense of, "There will be work in the heaven representing things to come very much like there was in the heaven of the past [Eden], on the grounds that God himself rejoices in light of his work". Keller is right in proposing that work will not vanish in paradise. Work was a happy piece of God's unique great creation (Beginning 1:26-28; 2:15), so that's what it follows, similar to any remaining things, it also will be recharged and made new (Colossians 1:20, Disclosure 21:1-8). I think almost certainly, we will work in paradise, in the way that God generally expected us to work - with happiness! Without a doubt there are explicit predictions of the new sky and the new earth which notice work (Isaiah 2:4, 65:17-23)

For a few of us our work may be so troublesome and laborious right now that the prospect of working forever is definitely not a charming thought. In any case, work wasn't generally intended to be difficult. Furthermore, work will not be laborious all of the time. In the new sky and the new earth we will fill in as God generally planned us to; administering over and curbing His creation liberated from work and trouble. Work will continuously be a delight. Those (maybe momentary) snapshots of delight that we can have in our work presently are a sample of how great work will be in God's ideal realm. As Keller expresses, "In that heaven, you will be valuable in the existences of others to endless levels of bliss and fulfillment; and you will perform with all the expertise you can envision".

This is our expectation. In the expressions of Isaiah 65, when we work in the new sky and the new earth we "won't work to no end". Working God's creation will be a rush, a delight, a joy. Those deepest desires that you have for your work will happen as expected.

"See I will make new sky and another earth. The previous things won't be recollected, nor will they ring a bell. Be that as it may, be happy and cheer everlastingly in what I will make… I will celebrate over Jerusalem and take have a great time my kin… They will construct houses and stay in them; they will establish grape plantations and eat their natural product… They won't work to no end" (Isaiah 65: 17-19, 21, 23).