The Best is Yet to Come

Meditations on Second Corinthians

April 26, 2023

The Best is Yet to Come

God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 5:5

Read: 2 Corinthians 5:1-5

Paul has discussed the trials and tribulations that are a normal part of our life, and he has discussed the feelings of being crushed, perplexed, driven to despair, and forsaken that we experience when persecuted for our faith in Christ. Now Paul wants to assure the followers of Christ that what we experience in our mortal lives does not encompass our total lives. We are living eternally, that is a life that is uninterrupted by our mortal death. There is more to come, a life beyond our mortal experience.

What our life will be like after we die is not clear. But what is abundantly clear in the scriptures is that we will be with God eternally. When we die, our spirits return to God where we will remain until Christ comes again to earth in his Final Victory. What is not entirely clear is whether we will get our newly resurrected body when we get to heaven, or will our resurrected bodies await us in the final judgement.

Although I have uncertainty about the specifics of what happens when we die, the Apostle John has given me great comfort about life after death.

Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. (1 John 3:2)

My Takeaway: I may not be able to definitively explain what awaits humanity when our mortal life is over, but of this I am sure: I believe the Apostle John, therefore the best is yet to come.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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