The Best is Yet to Be

Happy is the one who reads the words of God's message, and happy are the people who hear this message and do what is written in it. The time is near when all of this will happen. . . Look, Jesus is coming with the clouds, and everyone will see Him, even those who stabbed Him. And all peoples of the earth will cry loudly because of Him. Yes, this will happen! Amen. The Lord God says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega. I am the One who is and was and is coming. I am the Almighty." -Revelation 1:3, 7-8

As the Christian with the Bible in his hand surveys the world scene, he is aware that we do not worship an absentee God. He is aware that God is in the shadows of history and that He has a plan. The Christian is not to be disturbed by the chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of sin and greed. Every day we see a thousand evidences of the fulfilment of biblical prophecy. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: "The Bible is true."

No matter how foreboding the future, the Christian knows the end of the story. We are heading toward a glorious climax. Every writer of the New Testament believes that "the best is yet to be."

As Jon Baillie has said: "The Bible indicates that the future is in God's hands. If it were in our hands, we would make a mess of it. The future is not in the devil's hands, for then he would lead us to destruction. The future is not at the mercy of any historical determinism leading us blindly forward, for then life would be without meaning. But the future is in the hands of the One who is preparing something better than the eye hath seen or ear heard, or has entered into the heart of man to conceive.". . .

-From Unto the Hills by Billy Graham; part of The Inspirational Study Bible: New Century Version by Max Lucado

God has told you He will destroy Satan and his works that oppose you. Do your actions prove that you believe Him?

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