So what's waiting in heaven folks?

Question

I know that we christians are waiting for Jesus'descent to bring us to heaven, but then what? Is heaven a place where only happiness and joy exists? Are there no pain, no suffering,
no dissapointment, no anxiousness, no losers? How can
you understand what happiness is if you don't know sadness?
How can you feel victory if you don't know what losing feels
like? So if you are ugly on earth will you become handsome
in heaven? Or will you remain ugly because you are as God
designed you and should be proud of that? In that case injustice exists in heaven, right? Can you starve in heaven
if you don't eat? Can you feel tired after playing sports and
even faint? Can you die? Seriously, are there any real joys
in heaven if you never taste dissapointments? If you play
tennis in heaven who will lose? I mean if you lose you feel
dissapointed, maybe not angry but atleast you lost. Is that
possible? So is heaven a place where sadness and despair
do not exist? How come?

Answer 1

Our belief that Heaven will be boring betrays a heresy—that God is boring. There’s no greater nonsense. Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand. He made our taste buds, adrenaline, sex drives, and the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains. Likewise, our imaginations and our capacity for joy and exhilaration were made by the very God we accuse of being boring. Are we so arrogant as to imagine that human beings came up with the idea of having fun?

“Won’t it be boring to be good all the time?” someone asked. Note the assumption: sin is exciting and righteousness is boring. We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn’t make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn’t create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn’t expand life; it shrinks it. Sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there’s fulfillment, when there’s beauty, when we see God as he truly is—an endless reservoir of fascination—boredom becomes impossible.

Those who believe that excitement can’t exist without sin are thinking with sin-poisoned minds. Drug addicts are convinced that without their drugs they can’t live happy lives. In fact—as everyone else can see—drugs make them miserable. Freedom from sin will mean freedom to be what God intended, freedom to find far greater joy in everything. In Heaven we’ll be filled—as Psalm 16:11 describes it—with joy and eternal pleasures.

Why Would Anyone Think We’d Be Bored?

An elderly gentleman I led to Christ asked a question of a Christian employee in his care center: “Will we have fun in Heaven?”

“Oh, no,” the woman replied, appearing dismayed that he’d even asked.

When he told me this story, I shook my head, because I’ve heard it so often. Why did this Christian woman respond as she did? Because, in accordance with the faulty assumptions of Christoplatonism, she instinctively linked fun with sin and boredom with holiness. But she couldn’t be more wrong. God promises that we’ll laugh, rejoice, and experience endless pleasures in Heaven.

Someone told me nobody will enjoy playing golf in Heaven because it would get boring always hitting holes in one. But why assume everyone’s skills will be equal and incapable of further development? Just as our minds will grow in knowledge, our resurrection bodies can develop greater skills.

Another reason people assume Heaven is boring is that their Christian lives are boring. That’s not God’s fault; it’s their own. God calls us to follow him in an adventure that should put us on life’s edge. He’s infinite in creativity, goodness, beauty, and power. If we’re experiencing the invigorating stirrings of God’s Spirit, trusting him to fill our lives with divine appointments, experiencing the childlike delights of his gracious daily kindnesses, then we’ll know that God is exciting and Heaven is exhilarating. People who love God crave his companionship. To be in his presence will be the very opposite of boredom.

We think of ourselves as fun-loving, and of God as a humorless killjoy. But we’ve got it backward. It’s not God who’s boring; it’s us. Did we invent wit, humor, and laughter? No. God did. We’ll never begin to exhaust God’s sense of humor and his love for adventure. The real question is this: How could God not be bored with us?

Most of us can envision ourselves being happy for a few days or a week, if that. But a year of complete and sustained happiness? Impossible, we think, because we’ve never experienced it. We think of life under the Curse as normal because that’s all we’ve ever known. A hundred or a million years of happiness is inconceivable to us. Just as creatures who live in a flat land can’t conceive of three-dimensional space, we can’t conceive of unending happiness. Because that level of happiness is not possible here on the fallen Earth, we assume it won’t be possible on the New Earth. But we’re wrong. To properly envision Heaven, we must remove from our eyes the distorted lenses of death and the Curse.

Answer 2

We know that people who are often quite happy don't know it until they lose something.

So I suppose it could be a place of eternal happiness, because you can never lose anything, and being surrounded by like people, they never steal from you. If you lose something, everyone works together to get it back, etc.

Possible. I can' say.

Answer 3

The beautiful is known as beautiful,
Because we know what ugly is.
The good is known as good,
Because we know what bad is.

Every aspect has its counterpart.
What is heavy resides on what is light.
Long and short opposes each other.
Tall and short support each other.
A voice is made up of sounds.
What begins has to have an end eventually.

The Wise Person lives by non-interfering,
Thus he instructs other by example not by words.

Things in the world continuously change.
The Wise One doesn't cling to anything.
For him all are seen with the same potentiality.
He acquires merits but is not attached to them.
His takes things the way they are.
In performing he is above the actions.
Thus his merits are always with him.

Answer 4

Heaven is a place of peace and joy and laughter and rejoicing and worship the King og kings and Lord of lords. There will be no sadness, no disappointments, no ugliness, no injustice. The perfect place to spend eternity!

Answer 5

In Heaven you get to be with Jesus forever and ever and you'll never be unhappy or hungry or feel pain and you can eat all the ice cream and candy that you want and you'll never get fat and you'll get your own pony and you'll get to see all your family and friends who died before (unless they're in that other place, that is).

Heaven is totally awesome! In case you were worrying about anyone suffering in Hell for eternity, put your mind at ease. You'll be having such a blast in Heaven that you won't care that there are people burning in Hell forever and ever just because they didn't believe in Jesus. In Heaven, nobody is allowed to be unhappy at all. And besides, those people in Hell deserve to suffer for eternity. All they had to do was believe in Jesus and they could have gone to Heaven, too, ya know? Look at it this way, more candy and ice cream for the rest of us! Yay! Heaven is awesome!!

Answer 6

i see what you are asking but heres what I think there is no pain no suffering there is no dissapointment there is no losing there is no starving there is no such thing as being ugly because no one knows what beautiful really looks like....we are raised to believe that certain traits are pretty while others are ugly.....Heaven is what we want it to be and joy and happoness are the only emotions we feel when we are in heaven and if someone does lose a game of tennis im sure they'll be great sports and focus on the positive aspects of the match. You wanted to know why there are no negative emotions in heaven. Well of course we dont know for sure but I think God is rewarding us for our devotion to him. As you know those who commit unforgiveable sins or who just dont believe go to hell. So, our reward for worshiping and praising him he's letting us join him in his kingdom and rewarding us with not having to feel the negative emotions that we feel here on earth

Answer 7

Let there (on earth) be light (only).
Light = understanding = grace glory.

Our Father: Thy will be done, on earth....
Do the will of God precedes receive the promise.

Nobody gets in higher heaven until all get in. Selah.
For there is NO respect of persons with God & Son.
There is only respect of persons against God & Son.

As for Jesus(division and not peace), he's only on high.
Christ is ascended to heaven: higher than the heavens.

Jesus is only the Saviour of Israel.
Christ is the Saviour of the world.
Eternal salvation is THROUGH Jesus-->Christ.

To WIT, "that God" (light only) was in "Christ": 2Cor 5:19
(that God was NOT in Jesus alienating the world by law)

The GRACE(ONLY) of our Lord J-->C with you all. Amen.
(the LAW of Jesus cursed EVERY ONE: Galatains)

Answer 8

My Theory:
We will be resurrected, as Christ was, after all he is the main example. Then we will be judged according to our works and hearts and then separated into varying degrees of heaven. You will be placed in the one in which you are happiest for example, if you spent most of your life in a bar are you going to be happy in the same environment as mother Theresa? The highest degree in that kingdom will receive the highest glory and those people who tried to live the best they could will be there working on their progression to perfection to become like God. We know families are an eternal principle so then it only makes sense that we continue to have families up there, even become like God. Don't fathers always want their sons and daughters to have as much as they have, and to be like them? Then it would make sense that we will become Gods, and create our own planets with our own families, Then are joys and disappointments will be watching our spirit children grow just as it is for God. As for the looks I believe you will be as God created you but in a perfected state, more glorious than you can imagine but you will still be the same person. Good Luck with your search for heaven. I recommend www.mormon.org

Answer 9

Virgins, fruit, wine, rivers, gardens, couches, palaces, gold and jewels.

Answer 10

God is waiting.