Have you ever wondered if you will find heaven boring? Think about it. It will last forever and ever. Those mythical pictures of the departed becoming angels and floating on clouds playing harps look boring to me. Maybe you don’t even like harp music.

Some people can imagine that the first 10,000 years in heaven may be really exciting. During those years we will have plenty of time to spend worshiping before God’s immense throne. We will be able to sing, I mean really sing, and it won’t ever be off key. We will be excited to experience what it is like to live in perfect bodies with no pain and no sickness. There will be plenty of time to go around heaven and find everybody there that we knew here on earth and get re-acquainted.

Then what? Start all over, and see it all again? To say the very least, eternity is going to be a long time.

If you are afraid that heaven will get boring, the Bible has good news. “There will be no end to the increase of

[God’s] government or of peace… to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this” (Isaiah 9:7). In other words, throughout eternity God’s rule and God’s peace will be forever expanding. We will always be exploring new territory and learning new things about God.

Even many modern scientists admit that the universe is constantly expanding. One Bible teacher explained that “… God’s children will be witnesses to His forever expanding kingdom of grace—forever ascending, forever enlarging, forever accelerating, forever intensifying.”

Followers of Jesus Christ will never reach a moment in heaven where they will say, “Well, that’s it. We’ve seen it all. We will never again experience anything new or different.” I don’t know exactly what that ever-increasing rule and ever-increasing peace of God will look like when I get to heaven, but I can’t wait to experience it!

This all sounds great, but I want to remind you that an eternity with God is only for those whose hearts have been made new. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). If God doesn’t change our sinful natures, worshiping and serving Him forever would be worse than boring. It would be unending torture.

We need a supernatural change of heart so that we WANT to worship and serve the One who made us; the One who died on the Cross for us.

That’s because by nature we are all much better at loving ourselves than we are at loving God. “All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way….” (Isaiah 53:6). An eternity of adoring and worshiping God is only attractive if we have a love relationship with God. That loving relationship must be based on God’s amazing love for us. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

This is how I look at it. If Jesus went to the Cross and endured the hell there that I deserve, then how could I NOT love Him? “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). I want to worship God because Jesus rescued me from the penalty of my sin. I don’t deserve  that kind of love. I could never earn it.

What about you? Do you love God so much that spending eternity with Him really appeals to you? The Apostle Paul is a good example. He said that he longed, “… to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better” (Philippians 1:23). If spending forever in the presence of a holy God sounds boring, then turn away from your sin and give your heart to Christ.

God will change you so you will want to praise, “… the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you” (1 Peter 1:3–4).

Rest assured that heaven will NEVER be boring to a follower of Jesus!