There are some who inform me eternity would be boring.
Such thoughts make me chuckle. After all, how would we ever know? We live a finite number of years and most of that time is spent ageing involving a process of reaching a brief peak of physical and mental capacity before deteriorating and eventually returning to dust. Ingenious though we are, it hardly gives us the framework to judge what eternity would be like.
All history has taught us is that for all the change and perceived improvement, kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, just like our finite experience.
If our limited mortal episodes are anything to go by, I can understand why some might see eternity as boring. If eternity was what some view as life without end, the cry to hope you die young before you get old would make all the sense in the world.
There is, however, one life that bucks the trend and points to a perspective on life that not only makes life today fulfilling and worth living to the max, but also hints at something far greater to come to be enjoyed in an age of no time.
The key to tapping into this life is to engage with the source of life Himself. Who better to show it than the very source? Who better to fill us with it than the One who lived before and lives forever?
I know what boredom is like. It’s not a pleasant experience. What marks it out as particularly unpleasant is how lifeless and stagnant it is. Mind in unrest, body unoccupied, it literally is a waste of time. When I grew in the encounter with real Life I truly began to discover what a crime against humanity boredom is.
That encounter continues to explain how there’s so much to enjoy and explore within and without in the light of who Life is. There is so much to reveal and discover, so much to grapple and embrace, boredom is not an option.
As the riches of these discoveries expand the mind and enrich the soul, we get a foretaste of just what a joy it would be to live eternally. It would make the thought of death all the more crushing, if it wasn’t for the good news that Life has conquered death. So full is the triumph that the invitation to embrace this truth is compelling exactly because it is fullness of life far beyond what mortal experience has covered.
Eternal joy, eternal peace and eternal love is not a prospect that bores me at all. Eternal life with the Lord of Life makes today worth living just to enjoy all the hints if it now.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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