A moment in time



I had a conversation recently with a very good friend regarding life and our time that God has given us to live here.  He sparked an idea I had been carrying for some time about the time we will spend in Heaven after this life.  When I think of it I am reminded of the song “Bless The Lord” where we sing:



And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come
Still my soul will
Sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years
And then forevermore
Forevermore



Again, in Amazing Grace we sing:



When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.





I find it hard to grasp but I expect that one day I will have been in heaven 10,000 years.  Wow, isn’t that amazing.  That sounds like such a long time but to God it is just a flicker in time.  My point is that we are here on earth a few decades, maybe 70 or 80 or even maybe 90 years which to us with our perspective is a long time.  But when this life is compared to 10,000 years in heaven this time is such a short existence.   I would guess that after 10,000 years we will remember hardly anything of this life.  It will be just a very distant memory.



For whatever reason God has chosen to put us here, in this place in this time.  He has also given us the gift of people who can help us through this life and also the gift of people who need our help in getting through life.



Eternity has started for all of us. One of these days God is going to call us home.  When that happens I expect our spirits will soar.  Jesus said he will wipe away our tears; there will be no sadness or anxiety, only love and joy.