Your Story Is Still Being Written
God doesn’t abandon the work He begins. Think about that.
Your Story Is Still Being Written
If there is one thing that makes a book come alive for me, it’s this: I love it when I come to the end of a chapter and I’m already wondering what’s going to happen next. What new challenges will the characters come across? What unexpected turns will they encounter? What new people will come into their world and what changes will there be?
I have friends who have learned to do that with every new morning. I try to do that with some success but it’s not always easy. It’s hard to go through turmoil and uncertainty and still be energized and ready to take on a new day.
Jeremiah went through more turmoil than I will ever see and yet he wrote these words:
Lamentations 3:22-23
“The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”
The Apostle Paul also faced danger and turmoil almost every day and he wrote:
Philippians 1:6
“…He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”
God doesn’t abandon the work He begins. Think about that. Our ultimate hope isn’t that tomorrow will be better than today. It’s that God has promised a future in which everything broken by sin will finally be made right. THAT’S the Good News!
Revelation 21:5
And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
C.S. Lewis once wrote, “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” So don’t measure the rest of your life by the disappointments of yesterday or the uncertainties of today. The God who has carried you this far has not finished His work.
Your present chapter is not your final chapter. In Christ, the best is yet to come!
Romans 8:18
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”
