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Isaiah chapter 65 verse 17

for behold I create new heavens and a new earth

and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

I love this verse that is basically a foretaste of what we read in Revelation chapter 21 and 22 as we see heaven described and really the rest of Isaiah 65 goes on to describe this picture of a new heaven and new earth that God creates.

And new is the key word where the old things are gone and the new has come.

And I love this description,

the former things shall not be remembered

or come into mind.

And I don't know for sure all that means practically about what our memory will be like in heaven.

This is talking about all who have trusted in heaven. This is talking about all who trusted in Jesus. That's clear all throughout

this chapter. There's a very clear distinction between this reality of a new heavens and

new earth for those who've trusted in God,

trusted in His servant and those who've not. So for all who have trusted in Jesus, I'm

not sure exactly how memory will work in heaven, particularly when we think about the hard and

painful and hurtful and difficult things we walk through in this world.

But the picture I have in my mind is,

you know how some days are, yeah, just really hard,

and then something happens that just totally turns the table and it's so

joyful it's so awesome and it lasts so long that you can hardly even remember those hard days before that because of what has happened that's totally different.

That's the picture I have when I think about heaven.

When I think about a place where there is literally no sin, no sorrow, no sadness. No suffering. No mourning. No death and we will experience this for not just a day or for a week or for a month or a year but for all of

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