Yearning for Consummation to Worship

Revelation 21:22-27

22 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. 24 And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. 25 Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). 26 And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. 27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

Our New Jerusalem, the place where we worship our great God and Savior, this place is where we will worship and enjoy Him forevermore.  The temple of David and Solomon was transitory, being destroyed and replaced by individual temples as a part of the whole (1 Peter 2:5, 1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 2:21).  When the Lord brings the heavenly city to the new earth which was the pattern for the earthly temple (Hebrews 8:5, 9:24), then we will see the temple is God Himself.  He as Emmanuel, God in our midst, will be the place of true worship with no representation of a place of worship between us anymore.  This new earth will also not require the sun or moon to rule the day or night (Genesis 1:16-18), for He will rule and be our light at all times.  The Lamb of God is also the light of the world for eternal salvation, not just to bring us initially to life in Him for salvation.  We who have been saved by that Light will together live in that light and bring honor and glory to the Lamb who alone is worthy.  This eternal city of God will never sleep or close to His people, but will be inhabited by all made righteous in Christ to be able to enter into these gates with thanksgiving.  Only those made holy in the Lamb, who He chose before creation and are this written in His Book of Life, only these will be with our God and Savior to continue to more perfectly honor and worship Him forever as we enjoy our Maker and Lord in His presence.  The very suggestion by some that heaven will be boring if we cannot pursue what we do in this life now cannot grasp the wonder of the gospel which delivers us out of darkness into this marvelous Light of the Lamb now and forever.  Living and worshipping Him is why we were created and the purpose of His design for eternity.  We who are His yearn for this consummation!