‘Our belief that heaven will be boring betrays a heresy – that God is boring. There’s no greater nonsense. Our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand. He made our taste buds, adrenaline, sex drives, and the nerve ending that convey pleasure to our brains. Likewise, our imaginations and our capacity for joy and exhilaration were made by the very God we accuse of being boring. Are we so arrogant as to imagine that human beings came up with the idea of having fun?
“Won’t it be boring to be good all the time?” someone asked. Note the assumption: sin is exciting and righteousness is boring. We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfilment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfilment. Sin doesn’t make life fulfilling; it makes life empty. Sin doesn’t create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn’t expand life; if shrinks it. Sin’s emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When’s there’s fulfilment, when there’s beauty, when we God as he truly is – an endless reservoir of fascination – boredom becomes impossible.’
Randy Alcorn, Heaven, p.410.
