Opus 2025-280: Children of Eternity

What are the patterns I see in the spiritual walk of the people of God is that you often have generational decay.  The parents have a strong encounter with the living God.  They often pass that on to their children, but it is still not the same as that first initial experience.  By the time you get a few generations down the road, it becomes ritual, habit, going through the motions and the living contact has died out.

This makes me wonder about eternity.  We already know what Jesus had to say about marriage,

(Mat 22:30 KJV)  For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

I would assume that if there is no marriage, there would be no children.  That seems a bit sad but I’m sure we will make up for it in other ways.

In eternity it is possible that the only chance people have a knowing what it is to have children will be to interact with those young lives that were destroyed by abortion.  They may need to wait in line after the real parents show up.

One of my questions is about whether sin will be possible in eternity.  It would seem not, but the only way that you could get a culture or a community with no-one slipping into sin is to have filtered in such a way that the desire to sin has been pushed out of the picture.  That would seem to imply no new children, because each of us who makes it to heaven has gone through the gauntlet of living on earth.  New children would not quaify.

Picture a Utopia established here on earth.  One of the characteristics of that Utopia would be that no one likes liver and onions.  It was off of the menu and out of our minds.  If we continue to have children, the odds are that somewhere in that process a defective gene would reemerge and a child would be born that thought liver and onions are the cats meow.  Thus sin would be reestablished.

In reality, it will be more like being suspended in that brief moment between our last child moving out to their apartment, and realizing their room is now available for an office and the moment when empty nest syndrome sets in.  Or that time as grandparents between when we finally waved goodbye to our grandchildren after a long day, take a deep breath and then start wondering how long until we see them again.  These intervals may not be long, but in eternity they can be extended.

And I trust that eternity will be so glorious that we won’t have to worry about little things.  Until we know more we need to concentrate on making sure that the children we have here will be with us up there.

homo unius libri