Forever is a long, long time. Forever is, most would agree, pretty much impossible to imagine.

When we say something like, "That took forever!" we don't mean it literally, of course. That would be ridiculous. What we intend to communicate is that what we just experienced was so boring or frightening or whatever that time seemed to stand still. It seemed the thing would never end.

When the psalmist writes of "pleasant places," he means that the eternal pleasures of God can be known immediately in the now. It's kind of nice, isn't it, to know that we can feel in any given moment the presence of a God who understands what forever is.

By Nick Foster from D365