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I remember one of my wilderness times where I lived at a church (quite literally for several months) and I remember being able to be at the altar praying for hours and hours and hours and hours. I do mean hours and hours and hours. The odd thing was that I got the sense that it wasn't as pleasing to God as I thought it would be. I actually ended up feeling like I was sitting on my butt doing nothing, that intense prayer isn't really the world shaking thing we think it is. That it was like I was doing nothing. Wasting my valuable time. So I began to write instead and I immediately felt like God was pleased with me using my gifts.

I think heaven and our lives during His reign here will be a productive time, and spent being a part of a working kingdom. I think we will be doing work and writing and singing and drawing and painting. I think we will use our gifts in some thrilling, amazing ways. I think THAT will be far greater worship to God than singing a song or praising for all eternity. I think the whole 1000 year reign will be an amazing time. A time where justice is brought in. Where we see the racial divides and the class divides removed before our eyes. Where rich and poor become things of the past. It will be a reign and that means that there will be things to be done and rules to be enacted, decrees to be established. I think it will be an amazing time to be an artist and I think we will be able to come and display our gifts before Him. But really, we are not pets and I don't think God enjoys people being idle. And sometimes worship is more about us than it is about pleasing God. After all, the Bible lays out what God finds pleasing and it isn't really singing or worship but rather when the poor and destitute are taken care of. When widows are looked after. Would anyone here want to hear Happy Birthday to you for all eternity? I think not. Well the thought of us singing it to God must be just as creepy to Him. I think that the church can't imagine His reign because it too often isn't about Him, it is about people pleasing themselves. A never ending New Years party. Personally, I find the idea of a literal, physical reign of Jesus to be very incredible. I can't wait to watch Him overturn the corruption of the church, debase the proud and right every wrong. That isn't a party, that is justice. I don't want to move to some other perfect place. I want to see Him reigning here, taking this messed up place and setting it straight. I want the invalids and the abused to be given a voice, a chance at living. That is way better than being in a room that has never known war or lack and singing forever. Just pushing a reset button wouldn't be so heroic or Godlike. It would be a slap in the face of those who have sacrificed themselves for others. The idea of a thousand year reign here shows me that right here, where we live that God's justice and leadership and compassion will be felt. Not in some other place.