JEFF TURNER
Revelation 21:4 says that in heaven there will be no more pain and that the former things have passed away, and this raises a heartfelt question for many believers: will we remember the suffering of this life, or the people we loved who did not come to faith? I believe the answer that scripture points toward is that heaven will be a place of complete and uninterrupted joy, with nothing present that could bring sorrow or weigh down the heart in any way.
That kind of total joy makes it difficult to imagine carrying grief or regret into eternity. It seems that the heartaches of this world, and even the memories of our own sins, will not follow us there. To remember the specific wrongs from which we have been forgiven would in some sense be to recycle sin in the mind, and that has no place in a sinless eternity. Believers will know the joy of forgiveness without being haunted by what they were forgiven from. Everything in heaven will serve to increase joy, and nothing will be allowed to diminish it.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18
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