Episode 392: I’m Talkin…Forever

I’m Talkin’, episode 392 for October 19th, 2025.

This is Joel from the I’m Talkin’ microcast, where I share my thoughts on a topic that has piqued my interest this past week.

This week, we’re talking forever.

Well, not really talking forever, but talking about the word forever.

And it’s interesting, it’s just right off the top of my head, is there any difference when I get to that challenge section of my podcast?

But thinking of the word general use almost always has an ending in today’s world.

It’s like that whatever thing, event, activity, you know, that took forever is a common saying, but it really didn’t take forever because it ended or something happened.

But oftentimes, we are tested in our patience, and so we say words like forever.

And then what we really mean is a finite period of time, just longer than we would have anticipated.

And so forever becomes kind of exhausting for us, and therein lies the challenge for those of us who call ourselves Christians.

Once again, this week’s word comes from Psalm 23, verse 6, which says, Surely your goodness and everlasting love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever.

So this forever word has the meaning of eternal.

There is no ending.

It is forever from the time that you live in God’s house, from your death to time unmeasurable.

And if in today’s world we find forever exhausting, then how do we as Christians make forever sound like a great idea to those who are seeking God when we talk about our faith?

How do we say that forever is a great thing when so much of forever use on this earth is heartbreaking or, like I said, exhausting or temper-raising?

What do we do as Christians with that word?

The word forever is always going to be a challenge.

We look at it as a positive as Christians because we’re going to be with God forever.

But our problem is that trying to imagine that becomes very difficult.

We don’t understand perfection because we’ve never lived in it.

We don’t understand the perfect world that God intended at His creation because we have never lived in it.

We don’t understand God’s nature because we don’t always live with Him.

We get to see glimpses of that in our today world.

We get to see glimpses of that through His word and through Scripture.

But the thing is that if we could explain it, I think people would be so drawn to heaven that our witnessing would become easier.

But it’s so hard to explain that word forever.

What we have to stand on is the promises of God that says you will be with me forever.

It talks about no pain, no tears, no sorrow, no sin.

And when we think of it, even for a little bit, even though we fully don’t understand it or grasp it, it actually does sound like a great, unexplainable, beautiful place that we want to spend eternally.

Until next week, this is Joel from the I’m Talking Microcast.