I must be a Bad Christian, but I find it difficult to take this idea literally. What would be blissful about eternally chanting the same thing?
For that matter, why would God arrange to have a choir eternally chant his praise? Doesn't that sound just a bit like the Cult of Personality dictator over-compensating for his inferiority complex? Is God really just one of the Kims writ large?
Why would God create spirit and human creatures with free will to serve him for eternity as living audio loops? Couldn't he find Best Buy?
I'm afraid I view this idea of chanting eternal praise as symbolic. God will have real work for us to do, but that work and our lives will at the same time be praise of Him.
My apologies if these thoughts offend anyone.
A gentle correcting is in order.
In this life, we do the work of God. When we are home with him we rest.
Have a good and blessed Easter.
I certainly don't think it's going to be a literally interminable prayer service, just like what you get at church on Sunday but No End and No Exit!!? Yikes!
My husband don-o and I just had a discussion about Heaven, and pretty much agreed that whatever, you'll be with God and it will blow your mind.
However. One of the images used in Scripture (see the book of Revelation, Ezekiel as well) is a splendid radiant scene with candles, and incense, and worshippers clad in long white robes chanting "Holy, Holy, Holy" --- and all of us Catholic and Orthodox (and undoubtedly others as well) instantly recognize what that is: it's Liturgy. In Heaven.
It's not that God is an egomaniac who likes nothing better than to be repetitively flattered by sycophants.
No more than the image of the "Heavenly Banquet" means that God is a glutton who likes nothing better than to stuff His face forever.
Or that the image of Heaven as a Temple trickling water from its right side, which turns into a river that irrigates fruit trees, means that God is an orchardist. (Though I particularly like that one.)
These images don't exclude each other. They pervade each other. It's a Garden-Wedding-With-Celestial-Choirs or an Ecstatic-Song-with-Nuptial-Love, the Spirit and the Bride say Come, Fruit- Trees-and-Feasting or ---lots of palm-waving in there, too, a glassy sea and golden crowns, the elders, the four living things, all the forgiven sinners who are actually surprised to be there--- the great I Am, and the Lamb Who was slain, and yet is glorious and will die no more, and the, the --- whatever it is, it's Love, Love enthroned, Love all around and God only knows.
Literally, God only knows.
But Liturgy--- the glory of the Godhead being adored in joyous splendor by all beings visible and invisible --- is a precious and luminous image of our celestial joy.
This I know. For the Bible tells me so.