We are treated tonight to another thought provoking devotional from the keyboard of my dear friend and brother-in Christ, Ken Ellis. Thanks for all the prayers while I am in Vietnam!
Do you ever get the melody
of a song in your mind and then have difficulty letting go of it? So you
think of another song to get rid of the first one, and then that song takes
over. For some reason that I can't explain, one of Frank Sinatra's songs has
become embedded in my database, and I'm having a hard time making the "delete"
button work. In 1964 Frank recorded "The Best is Yet to Come." Since some of
you are post 1964, I'll share just a little bit with you.
Out of the tree of
life, I just picked me a plum
You came along and everything started to hum
Still it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come.
The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine
You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.
You came along and everything started to hum
Still it's a real good bet, the best is yet to come.
The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine
You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.
Frank's saying no matter how good you've got it now, the
best is yet to come. We may not feel this way every day because there are some
days when we think life couldn't possibly be any better. A few events that you
might include on your "It Can't Get Any Better Than This" list:
- Your first love
- Your wedding day
- The birth of your children
- The birth of grandchildren
- Baptism of children and grandchildren
- A promotion at work
- Final payment on your mortgage
Despite all the joys that we
experience in life, there will be times when we'll rearrange the words a little to ask, "When Will Things
Get Better?" There will be times when we will yearn for those "the best is yet
to come" days. I once asked my father-in-law, who was advanced in age at the
time, what he had been doing of late. His response was "going to funerals and
doctor's appointments." No matter how good things ever are here on earth, as
Christians we know the best to come awaits us in heaven. The scriptures remind
us of the frailty of life.
Job 14:1-2—“How frail is humanity! How short is life! Like a
flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. Like the shadow of a passing
cloud, we quickly disappear.” (NLT)
If you're experiencing that time
in life when you think "it can't get any better than this," then revel in it.
And if you're at that point when dark clouds
are on the horizon, then take strength from the Apostle Paul's exhortation that
truly the "best is yet to come:"
2 Cor. 5:1 - ”For
we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down—when we die and
leave these bodies—we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body made for us by
God himself and not by human hands.” (NLT)
God bless,
Steve
Luke 18:1
Luke 18:1
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