Spending Eternity In Heaven Is Just Silly

Yesterday we were told an account about a guy who was taken up into heaven. He was taken on a tour by Jesus. Near the end of his vision, Jesus and him jumped into the river of life and Jesus proceeded to start a water fight.

At first I thought it was kind of fun, and then it got me thinking about the validity of his experience. I mean, that seems kind of silly for them to do that!

So this morning I was reading Revelation 4 and envisioning the throne room with it's sea of glass, lighting, thunder and never ending songs and I got to thinking again about Jesus playing in the river of life. Is He really that silly? Well this it was I concluded - heaven must be the silliest place you could possibly imagine!

It's hard to be silly when you are stressed out. I can always tell when I'm not stressed because my "voices" slowly start to come back. No, not the ones in my head! The foreign accents, cartoon characters and other weird personalities that seem to be trapped inside me emerge as the stress level subsides. They are one my stress metrics. If they are around, I'm not feeling stressed.

But there's more to silliness than stress. It's hard to be silly around people you don't feel comfortable with. There is a fear of rejection or at the very least being seen as immature or childish. So let's compare hindering factors to silliness and heaven:

Stress hinders silliness - Heaven has NO stress!
Shame hinders silliness - Heaven has NO shame!
Lack of joy hinders silliness - Heaven is PURE joy!
Rejection hinders silliness - Heaven is for the accepted!
The fear of breaking something hinders others silly activity - Nothing breaks in heaven!

Can you imagine this conversation in heaven

Parent: "You know son, it's all fun and games until someone looses and eye!"?   
Child: "No problem! It'll grow back!!"

Heaven has no stress, no shame, no fear and nothing breaks. It was designed and build to reflect the nature and character of God. So my conclusion is this - God's going to be a lot of fun and spending eternity in heaven is going to be silly (and I can't wait!)

Jon