Daily Delight
Christians have strong views about the age of the earth. Was it created in literally seven days, or did God shape the earth over a process of millions of years? I have heard extremely passionate arguments for both. Either way, I think we are focusing on the wrong end of history. What the Bible talks about much more than prehistoric times is what's going to happen in the future!
Do you let yourself daydream about Heaven, sister? Do you let yourself truly believe that one day you will step into a world you have longed for your whole life, and that all the impossibly good things you have dreamed will not only be true but better than you imagined?
You can be assured that in a world where God reigns forever and ever, all the horrors and even mild unpleasantries of our day will be gone. For once, there will be no injustice. There will not be grief, on any level. There will not even be awkward relationships or petty drama. No more funerals or roadkill or even mosquito bites. All the bad things, gone.
And in their place? We will get to enjoy God's good gifts as they were meant to be, because we will get to enjoy Christ Himself- the light and glory of Heaven. (Revelation 21:23) We will not have to deal with this cumbersome sinful flesh that gets in the way of our love for Him.
The enemy would love for us to get caught up in arguments about beginning times or end times because he does not want us to spend much time thinking about Heaven itself, or better yet, the God of Heaven.
Fight the enemy and let your heart rejoice about Heaven today. Daydream about what you as a daughter of the King will be doing millions and billions of years from now, in a world where God reigns forever and ever.
About the Author
Hope Henchey
Hope is a 27-year-old currently based in the suburbs of Tampa who loves and needs Jesus desperately. She has a passion for inviting others to read the Bible for themselves...beginning with the four little people she gets to disciple every day and call her Mommy! Her husband of eight years, Peter, is a blue-collar entrepreneur who seeks to be a light for Jesus in the workplace. They are both obsessed with Romans 8 and dream of growing their family through adoption someday.
Hope loves being outside, and her family enjoys traveling around the southeast in their RV. As an Enneagram 7, Hope has many random passions and interests, including but not limited to Coke Icees, clean sketch comedy, dip pen calligraphy, group fitness classes, theology, home birth, spaetzle, urbanism, bullet journaling, curricula-making, and much more. Domesticity is not her greatest strength, and her home is very messy, but being placed in roles that don't come naturally has been a major way that God is sanctifying her.
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