What can we expect with certainty? - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2024

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Galatians 5:5

What can we expect with certainty?
When we look at the future, our hearts are moved by expectations and fears. We don’t know what will happen to our health, family or career. Because so many things are out of our hands, much of what lies ahead is completely uncertain.

Only God knows the future. He gives a sure hope to believing Christians. In the Bible, He tells them what they can definitely expect:

o “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20). The Lord will come again to transform our bodies, freeing them from weakness, sickness and mortality. They will then be conformed to His body of glory so that we can dwell eternally in heaven.

o We are “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). The Lord will come again to take us to Himself in heavenly glory. There we will see Him as He is. Later we will appear with Him glorified before the world.

o “Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13). After the Millennial Kingdom, God will make new heavens and a new earth. In this new creation everything will be in complete harmony with God. What a glorious future!

Today’s reading: 1 Kings 20:1-12 · John 13:1-15