What Will We Do In Heaven?

Besides expanding our relationships in ways we could only dream of before, we’ll have plenty of activities to challenge us in heaven. How about designing your own dream house?

“Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. . . . I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people. . . . They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. . . . My chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.”
—Isaiah 65:17-22.

Jesus is already preparing personalized homes for us in the Holy City, the New Jerusalem (John 14:1-3; Revelation 21). These verses suggest we’ll also design and construct other houses—perhaps beautiful country estates, landscaping them with heaven’s rich variety of plant life. But this is just the start. Isaiah simply described a busy new earth in terms of the chief occupations of his day: building and planting. Who knows what high-tech adventures await us in God’s perfectly advanced civilization? Our present scientific breakthroughs and space odysseys will seem like child’s play when we begin exploring in our “Father’s house.”

Do you love the beauty of thundering waterfalls, quiet meadows, teeming rain forests, and delicate blossoms?

“The LORD will surely comfort Zion... he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.” —Isaiah 51:3.

God will transform the earth into a pristine Garden of Eden. No more oil spills or smog or drought; the lakes stay crystal clear, the trees majestic, and the mountainsides unscarred.