Isn't it interesting, sometimes the anticipation of a great event can be more important than the event itself. Even that this event itself can feel somewhat of a let down. Is that why the ideas of eternity are so elusive? Is that why the idea of the intangible becoming tangible is exhilarating and at the same time terrifying?
I have read and know in the bottom of my being that eternity will be overwhelmingly wonderful, but there is, of course, fear. What if it is not as lovely as one hopes? I do believe and hope in the Hebrews 11 sense, that it will be as CS Lewis writes in "The Great Divorce" not less real than this world, but somehow more real. The word picture that stands out most, is the idea that the very grass is so real that it will cut your feet. I often think of eternity as a ghostly place, ethereal and weird, but somehow wonderful. But I love the idea that CS Lewis perpetrates that this life is in fact less real than the realness of true life experienced in eternity, where there is no hindrance between the true, unfettered glory of God and me. It seems that it must be this way, because there will no longer be me and my sin to get in the way, but the whole ness of life, how it was meant to be, forever, into eternity.
Thinking about eternity in these terms makes me long for it, but somehow I still do fear that I will be let down, but surely it cannot be because my shallow finite mind can only think of so much greatness and eternity will be filled with the unfathomable greatness of the Glory of God Himself.
