FRIDAY March 3rd
1 John 3:2
‘Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.’
We are back to the same verse again, today we move from our present position which is as being ‘God’s children now’ to the future, ‘and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.’
Do we realise that not only is our present position in Christ amazing, but God has prepared a spectacular future for us! Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 2:9 ‘But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”’
We are going to be with God, our Father, and we are going to be like him! As the Scripture I have just quoted says, the heart of man cannot imagine, we cannot fully understand what it will be like, but we can be assured that because it has all been prepared for us by God himself it will be spectacular, out of this world!
Romans 8:18 and 2 Corinthians 4:17 tell us that what is to be or will be in eternity will far outweigh anything we have been through or endured on this earth. Philippians 3:21 tells us that our lowly (that is our earthly) bodies will be transformed like Christ’s glorious body. But it is not just about our being like him, but our enjoyment throughout eternity of all that he will have prepared for us, and of our being in Gods very presence, for eternity!
We get a little glimpse in the book of Revelation which portrays for us the redeemed of the Lord as being in the new Jerusalem that will have been prepared for us to dwell in with God, and being freed from all the limitations of the fallen world in which we now live in and completely delivered from all those things that trouble us, a future where there will be no more tears, no more death, no mourning, no crying nor pain and a place that will absolutely free from anything that is to do with evil and the great joy of our being found around the throne of God where we will be worshippers like we have never worshipped before. What an amazing, spectacular future!