MORNING MANNA 9-22-21
THE BEST IS YET TO BE
As Charles Simeon, the great nineteenth century English preacher, lay mortally ill in his Cambridge home, he realized that his time on earth was fast slipping away. He turned to those at his bedside and asked,
“Do you know what comforts me just now? I find infinite consolation in the fact that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
His friends asked how that thought could give solace as he faced death. He answered with the confidence of one about to meet the Lord,
“Why, if God can bring all the wonder of the worlds out of nothing, He may still make something out of me!”
To think of the glory that awaits God’s children—to have a spirit perfectly pure and a resurrected body that will enable us to enjoy eternity to its fullest—staggers the imagination. The great changes we will experience in glory are beyond our understanding.
Even now God’s transforming power is at work in us. At conversion we became children of God and were made “alive together with Christ” (Eph 2:5) But that is not all. Paul said that in the future God will “show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:7)). No wonder the apostle John exclaimed with astonishment, “It has not yet been revealed what we shall be.”
Glorious prospects await those who have trusted Christ for salvation. God is not done with us yet. The best is yet to be. —P. R. Van Gorder
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
