Life has been very full the past couple of weeks, so I haven’t had a chance to even think about writing. So I’m going to be a little lazy and post a quote by Dallas Willard from his book, The Divine Conspiracy.

Willard was fond of saying, “We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.” This sentence always tickles my imagination of what lies in our eternal future. In the following quote, recently shared by John Ortberg in his podcast, Willard expands his vision of eternity:

“We should expect that in due time we will be moved into our eternal destiny of creative activity with Jesus and his friends and associates in the ‘many mansions’ of ‘his Father’s house. Thus, we should not think of ourselves as destined to be celestial bureaucrats, involved eternally in celestial “administrivia.” That would be only slightly better than being caught in an everlasting church service. No, we should think of our destiny as being absorbed in a tremendously creative team effort, with unimaginably splendid leadership, on an inconceivably vast plane of activity, with ever more comprehensive cycles of productivity and enjoyment. This is the ‘eye hath not seen, neither ear heard’ that lies before us in the prophetic vision (Isa. 64:4).”

I’ve mentioned before that I believe the Book of Revelation almost seems to end with the words “To Be Continued…” God’s magnificent story from Genesis through Revelation climaxes and resolves in such a way that it builds toward a new story. Willard’s quote beautifully teases what that story’s trajectory might be. And by doing so, provides fuller vision and meaning to our lives as Jesus’ apprentices here and now.