Infinity

Infinity is a very long time. It is a VERY VERY VERY long time. It’s a concept that I really cannot understand. I’ve tried. I really have. I’ve spent hours thinking about how long forever is. I’ve tried to think about what eternity would be like. I’ve made a serious effort to wrap my mind around a period of time, that isn’t really a time period because it has no beginning or end. How am I supposed to understand something that is infinite, when I am only finite?

It seems that by very definition of my humanness (FINITE/HAS A END) I can’t every understand God and his infinite-ness/never ever ever having any sort of an end. Never ending…. MIND BLOWING!

A few years ago I watched the movie Tuck Everlasting with some friends. It started fine, was intriguing in the middle, sad towards the end, and just plain depressing by the conclusion. A girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger who tells her that he is hundreds of years old, and that he can never die. She wants to be immortal talk like him, he says no, she says yes, he says no, she gets into trouble, he saves her and is almost found out… he has to go away, they stay in love, but she grows old and dies while he stays young. Depressing really.

The last scene of the movie shows Tuck visiting her grave. She had aged, and as time would have it grown old (something he could never do) and eventually died (also something he could never do). As a result, he was stuck as a wander on earth while his love moved on. What a depressing movie! Movies are our escape from reality, and what kind of a escape is it, if it’s a depressing one. Well not a very good one I’d say.

 Anyway… man is not meant to live forever. Somewhere in the old testament God said that man could no longer live past 120something years. I say maybe that’s god protecting the people he loves. Maybe we can’t handle seeing more than a century of years. I know that right now, even though I love life, and can’t wait to see more of it, come 70 years from now, I’m going to be ready to go home. No more for me Lord, take me home.

Infinity. As hard as infinity is to imagine, I think Infinity in Heaven is something I’ll like. I’d say I could wait forever if it mean getting to spend eternity with Christ in paradise, but... Do I really know what forever means?