We don't need ever more intense, more costly and more superficial stimulation to be content. Indeed, the whole realm of creation is ours richly to enjoy. I mean what are we finally going to become humanly. We are going to share the glory of God. I don't waste two seconds thinking about it.
Speculation is pointless.
Karl Barth, the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, was teaching at the University of Bonn in 1935 when the Gestapo arrived at the classroom door and told him not to bother finishing his paragraph. Barth was going to be deported to his native Switzerland. He had five children, no job, and faced many wartime years of difficulty and discouragement. The biblical message speaks of our Lord who is at hand, whose presence forestalls anxiety, and who summons us to rejoice always in him. The joy he lends us the world neither gives nor takes away, since he alone causes hearts to sing.