We talk a lot about eternal life here because you want to talk a lot about eternal life here.

And I'm not complaining about any of it.

I love it.

I love returning to a conversation about our eternal happiness in heaven.

And often when we talk about the joys of heaven and the end of pain and the end of suffering

and a world of no more tears where nothing is broken, there's just so much to anticipate

about eternity. But if we're honest, there are some fears about eternity too that can come up.

Those fears can creep in and keep us up at night sometimes.

We wonder if our happiness is really too fragile to live forever. We doubt that in 10,000 years of

doing the same things, we will be entertained. And if we are happy 10,000 years from now, what if eternity expires?

What if heaven ends at some point? Can it end? And if not, how do we know for sure it won't?

That's today on Ask Pastor John. Will you be happy in a million years?

The question is from Emily in Austin, Texas.

Pastor John, I am a teen who struggles with strong and frequent anxiety attacks, and I have

a question about heaven that sometimes worries me a lot.

It's at least part of my problem.

Will God ever get rid of people in heaven to be done with them or simply to start over

and make new people for some other reason? I'm not talking about those who aren't in heaven,

the annihilation of the wicked. I mean the annihilation of the godly. Is that possible? And if it's not,

what do you think life will be like for us in a million

years? Emily, the first thing I want to say is that Jesus is really good at helping people with

anxiety. He is, in fact, a specialist in overcoming fear and sustaining glad-hearted boldness.

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