Opus 2025-366: Take a Number

In our Wednesday night Bible study discussion somebody brought up how glorious it will be to sit at the feet of Jesus and have our questions answered.  It’s a beautiful picture but the rabbit trails of my mind just keep branching off and going in all kinds of directions.  One question I have about that picture is how the millions, possibly billions, of believers who make it to heaven are going to have one-on-one conferences with Jesus of any significance.  I’ll let you do the math.  If you give each one a minute, how long would it take to work through just the first round of questions?

There are many possible answers.  The most obvious one works in the context of the divine nature.  I don’t think there are going to be a billion Jesus’s talking at the same time to everyone who has a question.  In the dynamic of eternity, it’s going to express itself in ways that we can’t understand.  So my first answer is, we can’t understand.

Another thing that occurs to me is that in eternity with our resurrected minds and bodies we are going to look at things entirely different.  We are going to understand things that we couldn’t understand before.  We’re going to see connections that were so tenuous and convoluted that we never could’ve figured them out.  So part of the answer is possibly in our greatly increased capacity, we will see the answers and won’t need to bother Jesus.

Another answer is that we may forget about them.  Things that are big concerns for us now may not be a big concern for us then.  Picture the unending questions your five year old asked you about everything that popped into his mind like “Why do I have five fingers instead of six?”

It may be as we are waiting for our turn, that an angel will just casually walk in and sit down by us, open a magazine, and eventually engage us in conversation.  In that conversation, we will share why we were there, and the Angel will share with us the answer to our question and we will realize that we don’t need to bother Jesus.

Use your imagination.  I don’t know that it says anywhere that we’re going to be able to sit down and ask all the questions.  I think that’s one of the dreams that we have.  All I can really know is that it is going to be a time of great joy and fulfillment, whether I have questions or not, and whether I get answers or not.

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