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Essay / Summary of Surprised by Hope by Nicholas Thomas Wright
Will this be another garden with animals everywhere, like it was with Adam and Eve? I don't think so. God created men, he endowed us with a brilliant mind. God loves for us to think and work for His glory. I think the sky will have magnificent skyscrapers, statues of beauty we can only imagine. We hear about roads of gold and rivers of milk and honey all the time, but it is important to realize that we will not have rivers of milk and honey flowing through them. God wanted to use words that would resonate with his people. He wanted to paint a picture for them. Beyond that, it would be the best sight a person could imagine, this is what heaven will be like. For me, I don't think of milk and honey, but I think of buildings, glass, roads everywhere, mountains, fields, rivers. This is my beauty and I don't think God will replace a person's beauty because it doesn't match someone else's. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God hates cities. People seem to forget that heaven is a place where we spend our time worshiping God. Worshiping God does not mean signing to Him all day, every day. People worship God in so many different ways, which means heaven will be so amazing and different than anything we've ever thought of. We all have an idea of heaven, but we really don't know what awaits us.