To me glorifying God means doing things in his name. Or creating things like gardens. Singing, Work, Being nice to people is glorifying God. Everything good is glorifying to God. Because he is the soul of good.
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My friend, we will be working. Our God is a working God so he will expect nothing less of us. We will not be working for money or getting ahead. I imagine that we will be growing our own food etcâŚThink of a futuristic B.C. age (Before Christ) The way God intended before sin entered and corrupted everything.
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I should have given this to you earlier. Here is a fantastic read about Heaven. The book is titled âHeavenâ by Randy Alcorn. ENJOY! 
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A New Earth. A world free of sin, pain, and sadness. Reunion with loved ones and friends. It will be a grand place to live and experience everlasting life. II Peter 3:10-13, Revelation 21, Isaiah 65 and 66
I am a postmillennialist. Even though there is still sin today, I would rather live now than ten thousand years ago when the American Indians came from Siberia.
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ChristyâŚhere I was all ready to spout off and you stole my thunder! Only you said it more concisely than I would have⌠
My biggest thing is that most people still talk about us living in heaven! Reading Revelation is so clear about us living in New Jerusalem which is floating above the New Earth.
I suspect we will have a âcityâ home in NJ (not New Jersey! Oh No!) with a âweekendâ or âInstantaneous transport toâ cottage in the woods or by the beach, whatever!
Then if you really get the urge, flicker off to Saturn or the Pleiades to visit some the Aliens that have surbived thier own âbiblicalâ times and are enjoing thier everlasting life with Elohim (by another name - hah!)
CS Lewis in Perelandra, and Out of the Silent Planet has the right idea.
But an even better one is âNo Man In Edenâ by HL Myra. I read it when it first came out in 1975 and was flabbergasted! The first Christian âScience Fictionâ I had read since Lewis.
Yet it was strongly objected to by the powers that be (church that is). âUnscriptural hockey puck!â as one of the pastors said when I broached the subject.
I have always felt our minds are not stupide, and we can certainly conjecture the future, even though it will be so much better and beyond what we think. So saying we shouldnât conjecture up those kind of thoughts is just another way of repressing something out of fear our tender minds will be riven from the straight and narrow.
Conjecture on! Bless you all!
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Al, I once did a calculation on the possible numbers of everyone âsavedâ over the life of the earth from now until the beginning (whenever that was).
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I basically chose to divide the total population of all living humans (50,000 yrs to present) as estimated at 100 billion. Since the âremnantâ populations seen throughout the Bible are generally somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2, then 30-50 billion âsavedâ might be close enough.
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The New Jerusalem is by measurement 1500 miles on a side, and High. I do not believe it will be a cubic form. Given the âladder to heavenâ in Jacobâs dream is the same Hebrew word used for the stairway to the top of a ziggurat, I strongly suspect it will be that form.
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A zuggrat of that size would be roughly 1 billion cubic miles of space. Given the 50 billion people, that comes out to fifty (50) people per cubic mile of New Jerusalem. thatâs at the best remnant count of 1/2!
At and given that we will be able to âflyâ and âtransportâ ourselves (like Jesus did) there is no need for streets or roads, other than those appropriate to however the âMansionsâ are situated for our pleasure.
So no crowding, Al!
Ray 
Thats now 4 books for me!
Aliens? :o
I personally think it is possible that we might teleport or fly whatever. But since i believe that our bodies will still be a certain kind of physical. Jesus appeared in many places. Even when the door was locked and dissapeared in the same manner he appeared. Would we get this ability? I think we might be able to choose between actually walking and running. and maybe also appearing somewhere.
There could be cars, planes? Only God knows.
Yes, Totti, we will certainly be in physical bodies, just like Jesus was those 40 days after his resurrection. Eating and drinking, talking, laughing, and whisking off when he wished!
We will be just like he was â an more we donât even know yet!
As for the aliens, the grand scale of the cosmos is so vast, I have a hard time believing that it is all just for us. Elohim is so lavish in his love and relationships, I donât thin the paltry 100 billions of us that might be with him in Everlasting Life is enough! I strongly suspect there is more out there than we will ever find out until we are there. Even then, he may be surprising us!
Ray
That is a very interesting belief! And certainly it could be possible. But i myself donât see it!
Thanks for the ideaâs though! 
TuttiâŚOne of my high school English teachers (long ago) said that in the Middle Ages people believed they went to heaven when they die. But nowadays we think we will go to
Disneyland when we die.
Maybe we think that. But all that we know is what the Bible says. People will be like the risen Christ â that is, some day in the future, God will redeem all of creation from the results of the Fall. That is ALL of creationâŚas well as humanity â or at least those who confessed their sins and received forgiveness for them through Christ. .We were made for fellowship with Him and we will see Him face to faceâŚnot some telepathic methodâŚ
As for kids and holidays and new people coming and so on â and telling time ---- that is the stuff of speculation. Jesus said that in heaven people are like the angels who do not marry â so take that for what you willâŚAnd yes, we all can ask questions for ages. But there are a lot of things God has not told us.
I wonder what others on this site will say?? But make a distinction between imaginings and what is known biblically.
No, Disneyworld. Disneyworld is bigger.
Speaking of Disney, I loved the vision of the next life in the Pixar film âCocoâ
On the Day of the Dead, death is not seen as something really morbid.
Ofcourse this is all speculation. No man has been to heaven except for Jesus. And no man can truly imagine what it will be like. But what is wrong with trying to imagine? I dont think heaven will be disneyland. I think heaven will be creation as God meant it to be. But i dont think disneyland is excluded?
Maybe so about Disneyworld â which I skipped in favor of other things on last FLA visit, But I grew up near Disneyland. I would not take my teacher as the last word, nor would I give any credence to Coco or other things. There is a Hell as well as a Heaven, and what we know of these things are from the BibleâŚAll else is âŚâFantasyland.â
Depends on how you interpret the Bible though.
Since Jesus appeared through a locked door (John 20:26), perhaps when the ball is coming at us and we donât want to block it from going down the field, weâll be able to let it go through us? (Hope this humor isnât too irreverent )
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Sounds like a lot of us will struggle with the idea of letting go of the self that we acquired. Looks like we should not make jokes about those who expect virgins to be presented to them for heavenly feelings, but then perhaps women might get a slave / robot as a reward to help them with the washing and ironing.
If we havenât learned to live in the hearts of others by the time we go we probably never will.
There is something to the method of interpretation and to giving consideration to ancient culture and to the commentaries of various theologians down through the ages.
But in the end, all we know is the little that God has said. Heaven, Hell, judgment, rewards or no rewards, crowns being cast at the feet of Jesus, all that â. Certain images in the Bible are most likely symbolic but symbolic of something beyond our comprehension at the moment.
But Coco and the movie that implies that death is not so morbid ---- as you cited â I would think death might be extremely morbid for some. Hitler, for example??? The general idea that in heaven people will be transformed into something like Christ and that someday all of creation will be redeemed â that is about all that is known. The rest is for future discovery.
Not sure what is meant here. ââLetting go of the self that we acquiredââ??? Are you and I capable of acquiring??? hmmmmmmmmmmm,maybe the whole subject should be dropped.