Prodigal: Where are we?
Me: I’m back at my ol’ stompin’ grounds.
Prodigal: I love it!
This is from the book When Sinners Say I do by Dave Harvey
Paul is keeping our hope where it ultimately belongs–in Christ. This life, friends, is not really about you and me at all. It’s about God’s glory expressed through us. In this waiting room, God promises sanctification, a pattern of God-glorifying overall spiritual growth brought about by the power of his persistent grace. But in this life he does not promise to subdue every sin, strengthen every weakness, create unbroken harmony in your marriage, or cure every ailment.
If God fixed everything on the list you have now, don’t you think you would just make another list? Then another list, and another after that? What’s the end of that process? Perfection, which we don’t get in this life. That’s why we wait. Perfection is coming. Perfection will arrive when the Son of God returns and we dwell with him in the new heavens and the new earth.
It is a tough day isn’t it. No, your life isn’t perfect but you would just like the landslide of problems to stop for just an hour. Well, you may get mud all over you ,but you will make it. You will stand after this and God will be praised after. I am with you.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:21
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
