Seize the Moment – Day 374
Hold On to Your Faith Because the Best is Yet to Come!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, March 26.
The Bible ends with a triumphant view of God’s reign over His creation. There is hope! There is an end to all things that truly reveals the power and awesomeness of God! There is a fulfillment to the promise that is greater than our temporary sufferings upon this earth as we live by faith and not by sight.
My response to God’s vision of the New Heaven and New Earth is that we need to hold on because the best is yet to come!
Revelation 21:22–27 teaches us about the New Heaven and New Earth,
I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
Seize the moment and hold on to your faith as you live day-by-day. As Jesus so triumphantly declares in Revelation 21:5-6, “Behold, I am making all things new… It is done!” It will be done as God promised, so hold on! You may not be able to see it yet, but put your faith in the One who promises—He is faithful and true!
Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Ephesians 2:10, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”