I Don’t Know Much About Forever

 

He will wipe every tear from their eyes,

 

and there will be no more death

 

or sorrow or crying or pain.

 

All these things are gone forever.”

 

Revelation 21:4

 

 

If I could fast forward time, this particular verse would be past tense; because it would have happened many moons and multiple yesterdays ago.

 

But “if’s” and “why’s” are mostly only good for circular questions and unsatisfactory reasoning; and I’d love to hear the strung-together-set-of-words that could completely satisfy either of them.

 

But that said, plus my inability to fast forward time, doesn’t take away one iota of joy when I contemplate the verse’s very literal future happening; and I’ve asked the Lord for a front row seat at his coming event.

 

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world that has no tears, no death, no sorrow, no crying, and no pain; and when God says the word “forever” it has indescribably more meaning than when you or I indiscriminately use it. We don’t know much about forever…not yet, anyway; but its day is coming. And some days, it can’t come soon enough for me.

Dec 2012 Israel 2 991

(Shepherd’s cave, Bethlehem, Israel)

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