A lot of people
think Heaven is sitting around on a cloud playing a harp all day, doing nothing
except being “holy” - and they don’t find it very appealing! Thank God that is
not what Heaven is like!
DBB
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Heaven is not a
state or condition. Heaven is a place. “I go to prepare a place for you,”
promised Jesus. “In My Father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2).
CLA
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Heaven is a
pretty practical, common sense, down-to-earth place!
DBB
Heaven is not so
terribly different from this present existence to where we can’t even
comprehend or understand it. Otherwise, when we arrived there, we would be
completely lost and we wouldn’t be able to relate to it.
DBB
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We’re going to be
surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much
like this life. Of course, it will be better, much more beautiful and
supernatural, without all the troubles, trials, tribulations, suffering, tears
and pain we have here. However, it will still be enough like this life that we
will survive the change and not suffer some sort of traumatic “culture shock.”
It’ll be life very much like we’re living now, only without the bad and evil.
DBB
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Heaven is not a
place of eternal rest, but a place of eternal life.
CLA
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Concerning the
loved ones who have passed on … do not try to make me believe that they are
doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of
Hell, not of Heaven.
Campbell Morgan
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We must get away
from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday;
that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly
singing.
H. Lockyer
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The material
universe … even down to the smallest electron, is in motion. Heaven undoubtedly
is a very active place. Suns and planets are speeding through the universe at
terrific speeds. Nothing could be further from the truth than the old idea that
in Heaven the people are just sitting around, or lolling about, with nothing to
do - an idle, stagnant life. It is inconsistent to imagine a Heaven in which
people would sit under the shade of the trees, or on the bank of the River of
Life, twanging a harp - “perhaps a thousand strings” - and spend an eternity in
a do-nothing world! … We cannot conceive that God would put us in another world
with renewed and enlarged powers of body and mind, and leave us with nothing to
do.
Leewin B. Williams
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In Heaven we
shall not rest from our work, but from our labors. There will be no toil, no
pain in the work.
DBB
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We’re going to
have plenty of work to do, but it’s going to be a lot easier than here.
There’ll be no sorrow, no sickness, no pain, no weariness, no death, no more
tears, no more crying. That’s certainly going to make things easier. We’re
going to have rest in Heaven compared to what we’ve had in this life, but we’re
also going to have something to do. We’d eventually be unhappy if we didn’t!
DBB
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The thought of
eternal rest is boring. If we had nothing to do and no responsibilities, living
would become a bore and a burden. Paradise … is a place of beauty because it is
a place of growth.
CLA
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After death we
are given another chance for the fulfillment of the best in the individual
life. Eternal life overcomes all human limitations.
CLA
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I feel within me
that future life. I am like a forest that has been razed; the new shoots are
stronger and brighter. I shall most certainly rise toward the heavens. … The
nearer my approach to the end, the plainer is the sound of immortal symphonies
of worlds which invite me. For half a century I have been translating my
thoughts into prose and verse: history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition,
satire, ode, and song; all of these I have tried. But I feel I haven’t given
utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave
I can say, as others have said, “My day’s work is done.” But I cannot say, “My
life is done.” My work will recommence the next morning. The tomb is not a
blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes upon the twilight, but opens upon
the dawn.
Victor Hugo
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Death is the
opposite of retiring. Jesus made a promise to those who are faithful in this
life: “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few
things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord” (Matthew 25:23). Death is the emancipation of the soul into greater
activity.
CLA
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The future life
is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is
God’s grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the
universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the
environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns
to all.
Edwin Markham
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