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Life in the Renewed Creation (Heaven)

  By: Thomas Booher What will life in the renewed creation be like? How similar will it be to life now? Is such a question even one we should be asking? True, to daydream of dwelling within the unmitigated presence of God in a spotless, perfected land is not what God calls Christians to do. Some may appeal to 1 John 3:2 and say believers should only concern themselves with being faithful to God now since God has not revealed what life in glory will be like, except that we will be holy like Him: “Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” All Christians agree that eternal life will be spent praising and worshiping God for all that He is and has done, but how praising and worshiping expresses itself is debated, particularly in regards to work and our earthly activities. While it is true that no