Sounds of Devotion: If It Ends Today by Kutless

Man, this must be a fun song to hear in a concert. I can just imagine all the jumping and screaming and fist punching as Kutless sings “Raise your hands, if your with me, come on and say Hey, hey, I’m not afraid…”

But I think that beneath all that fist pumping and shouting is the reality that there are people that fear eternity; Christians who balk at the idea of everlasting. It’s so far outside our limited mindset, so far outside our sense of proper scale and proportion, this idea that something could go on forever. We fear boredom or we fear drudgery. We fear endless repetition or purposeless existence. We have many names for this secret fear (because honestly, how many Christians would openly admit that they fear heaven?) but it’s there. I know because I’ve been there, I’ve felt it.

 What I think we actually fear is eternal life on earth. We think of eternal worship before the throne of our Heavenly Father as an unending worship service at church, and while some days that sounds like great fun there is in the back of all of our heads the memory of that one night were we just couldn’t get into it. We were tired, distracted, in pain, whatever.

I don’t know what heavens going to be like, but I can make one thing perfectly clear.

That’s not what Heaven’s going to be like.

 Can I say this again? Heaven is not eternal earth.

Read Revelations, not necessarily the end-of-the-world predictions part (though that’s good too, just not the focus at the moment) but the parts were it talks about our experiences with heaven.

It will be without sin.
It will be without pain.
We will receive new bodies.
We will stand in the presence of God.
We will have tasks which we are perfectly suited for.
There is nothing to be afraid of. There will be no fear.

So raise your hands if you’re with me. Raise your hands and say Hey, I’m not afraid if it ends today. Revelations 21:4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."