Forever is the reality. The reality of forever depends on a confession of the heart. A true confession that Jesus is the forgiving and loving Lord of my life moves Lord Jesus to arrange for me forever with him in Paradise. “Truthful lips endure forever…”
A confession that Jesus was just a man, perhaps a prophet at best, and that God either does not exist or if there is a God it does not care about me is a lie that ends and takes me with it. “…a lying tongue lasts only a moment.” Which one of these two confession I make and keeps sets my forever reality.