Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

We record days by the rising and falling of the sun. Here we have a view of heaven in which there is no sun. How are we to mark time without a sun to show the passing of days?

Revelation 22:2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The yield of fruit will mark the months, but how many days in a month? Will a new and different fruit be yielded every month so that we might know the length of a year? How many days in a year? I do not know. Is it really important?

Revelation 22:3a And there shall be no more curse:

Isn’t that enough? Must we ask more?

We are on this side of time, we have not yet been translated. We relate to all things in this realm and all those questions are related to us in the here and now. I cannot say it will have any bearing on the other side of translation.

Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Perhaps our memories will be part of those “former things” which will pass away. I don’t know.

Perhaps then, on the other side. we might say, “What is sin?”

We are not there yet.

Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Have you ever had scripture become real to you in a new way? I must confess until yesterday this passage in Romans 8 held a whole different understanding for me. Then the culmination of personal suffering resulted in glory revealed. Was it worth it? Yes, you better believe it.

It wasn’t pleasant to experience nor was it pleasant to watch. People worried about me as I struggled thru my suffering. I am one who exhibits suffering, I do not hide it. I believe in being real with the people around me. How else would they know I am in distress? I had people praying for me even though they had no idea what to pray for, and neither did I.

It is over now and the joy I share “as He carried me there” no other shall ever know. Well that isn’t exactly true, the one more part of the body of Christ who joined us knows.

V19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Manifestation was seen.

V20, 21 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

I always thought of this in future terms, but isn’t today yesterday’s future? I just never thought of this in terms that I would be subjected to vanity, suffering that did not produce expected results. I did not know the joy I would feel from that finished work, so the suffering was well worth it.