“But it is just as the Scriptures say, “What God has planned for people who love him is more than eyes have seen or ears have heard. It has never even entered our minds!” (I Corinthians 2:9 Contemporary English Version)
Whether it’s Dicken’s “best of times or west of times,” or the time where you have reached the pinnacle of your career, or whether your life experience at the moment brings mourning or better yet, much joy, the best is yet to come. Yes, whether you are young or older, a master of new technology or a novice when it comes to technical things, the best is yet to come. Seemingly trapped in situation, taunted by teasing people who like to trample over you, or you are towering above the masses from either a spiritual perspective or significant materialistic perspective, the best is yet to come. If you have tried everything else, but you have not tried Jesus, try Him, and you will find out that the best is yet to come. If you are a good student of the world, regardless of your theological aptitude, as you keep studying and you see that the Lord indeed keeps revealing things to you, you will arrive to this conclusion: “The best is yet to come.”
Hopeless and helpless, yes, for you too, the best is yet to come. You are messed up and you just realized that you have to look up, make your way up to our magnificent, great God, and seek His mercy to fall down on you as you repent and seek forgiveness and a cleansing, follow your that realization, and you will discover the best is yet to come.
Ask Joseph who was thrown into the pit! Ask the Israelites who had been held in bondage in Egypt! Ask Jonah who was swallowed by a great fish, but was eventually spit out to do what he was supposed to do, given a new chance to get it right! Ask those at the wedding in Cana where Jesus turned water into wine toward the end of the gathering! Ask the prodigal son who finally came home to the prodigal father, a spendthrift in mercy! Ask the woman who reached out to touch the hem of Jesus’ garment! Ask the prophet who had to wait until Jesse’s son, David, showed up to be anointed! Ask the man who was ill for 38 years, sitting by the pool of Bethesda! Ask Peter who went from denying Christ to devoting his life to feeding the sheep! I could go on! And perhaps I should because someone is saying these examples were too long ago.
Well then, ask the person who was counted out, but got counted in by the Lord and who found out that God was not done with him or her yet! Ask the person who once saw Christian labor as just a job, but eventually saw it as labor of love! Ask me, for I have multiple, many, numerous examples of how the Lord continues to take me to different levels of understanding and how He keeps unveiling how He can use me and how He keeps on blessing me!
Now, imagine looking into heaven and speaking with one of your loved ones who’s soul is present with the Lord in paradise. Your loved one would assure you that all who know the Lord and have not come to occupy one of many rooms in the Father’s house yet, they have not experienced the best that is yet to comet! And then they would smile at you and drive home the point, saying, “The best is yet to come!”
Love you! Have a tremendously better day than yesterday, but remember on this Thursday, you ain’t seen nothing yet! “The best is yet to come!” Jesus reaffirms my premise in an ultimate sense for believer in the closing verse. Read it! Think about it! Come to the realization that because He lives, you can face today and tomorrow, knowing “The best is yet to come.” Be blessed!
“Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.” (John 14:19 NIV)
Mark L. King