Good Friday morning! Another holiday weekend is here, at least for those who do not have to work on Monday. Given the prevalence of parties on Monday night and the holiday on Tuesday, I suspect a lot of work places will be rather sparsely populated both on Monday and part of today. If I may take a moment to state the obvious, it is cold outside. Yup, got that out of the way. Now on with the devotional. Praise God that I won't need to write obvious things for all eternity. That might be more of a characteristic of the dark place than of God's new heaven and new earth.
Have you ever thought that God does not intimately describe this new place because it changes throughout eternity? Another possibility is that the new eternal home will be so extensive that all the books of the world could not contain the description. Still another is that our new eternal home will be so different from what we know here that we are not capable of understanding God's description right now. We can use words like marvelous, wonderful, overwhelming, and joy, but maybe the new heaven and new earth are so amazing because it takes eternity for us to appreciate God's handiwork properly.
Wait, isn't that a bit like the old two parallel lines gag from geometry class? How can we take eternity to appreciate eternity? I don't get it either, but then we are talking about God whose thoughts are so far above our thoughts that metaphors inevitably fall short of the reality. We live eternally with Christ because that's what it takes.
Have a great weekend!Bucky
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