"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind....Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed. And there was no more sea" (Is. 65:17; Rev. 21:1).
There is a powerful indication here of what Jesus Christ has, "planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages" (Eph. 1:10). Few in Christendom speak of such things today. Yet I submit to you, right there in the midst of a busy schedule, that a person who is aware and even, dare I say it, motivated by the fact that all of this is headed somewhere, headed to the return of Jesus Christ, the consummation of the age, the dawn of the new age of the Kingdom of Heaven, "wherein dwelleth righteousness," King Jesus reigning from, "the throne of His father David," in, "the City of the Great King," Jerusalem, is a person who will overcome. Such a person will, "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." He knows there is victory at the end of the pressing on.
Today, my Fellow Believer, there is Light at the end of this seemingly unending tunnel of life, the same, "I am the light of the world," Jesus Christ, Who has been dwelling in you on the journey. And though I make no claim to know much detail about the coming, "new heaven and...new earth," I do know they are a place, "wherein dwells righteousness," and that righteousness is not some moral achievement of mankind, but Jesus Christ Himself, "who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
He awaits you, my dear weary traveler. All those seemingly unanswered prayers, frustrated dreams, yes, even the ones you have felt were based on Biblical truth, but nevertheless those which you have never seen fulfilled --- some day, my friend, some day, all that our King, Savior, Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ has planned will be fulfilled in their entirety. "For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
Father, in Jesus' Name, deliver me from the evil of "everything must be now." Amen.
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you are not keeping up to date on fulfilled prophecy.
There is a powerful indication here of what Jesus Christ has, "planned for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages" (Eph. 1:10). Few in Christendom speak of such things today. Yet I submit to you, right there in the midst of a busy schedule, that a person who is aware and even, dare I say it, motivated by the fact that all of this is headed somewhere, headed to the return of Jesus Christ, the consummation of the age, the dawn of the new age of the Kingdom of Heaven, "wherein dwelleth righteousness," King Jesus reigning from, "the throne of His father David," in, "the City of the Great King," Jerusalem, is a person who will overcome. Such a person will, "press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." He knows there is victory at the end of the pressing on.
Today, my Fellow Believer, there is Light at the end of this seemingly unending tunnel of life, the same, "I am the light of the world," Jesus Christ, Who has been dwelling in you on the journey. And though I make no claim to know much detail about the coming, "new heaven and...new earth," I do know they are a place, "wherein dwells righteousness," and that righteousness is not some moral achievement of mankind, but Jesus Christ Himself, "who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
He awaits you, my dear weary traveler. All those seemingly unanswered prayers, frustrated dreams, yes, even the ones you have felt were based on Biblical truth, but nevertheless those which you have never seen fulfilled --- some day, my friend, some day, all that our King, Savior, Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ has planned will be fulfilled in their entirety. "For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
Father, in Jesus' Name, deliver me from the evil of "everything must be now." Amen.
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If You Don't Daily Read: www.apf327.blogspot.com
you are not keeping up to date on fulfilled prophecy.
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
"Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2
