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Aug 26
Well, I am trying to catch up after being out of the office all last week. I certainly appreciate all the prayers for travel, safety, and spiritual strength and connection. Our team had a good trip, but it is always good to get back home.
I have been reading through Job in my daily Bible reading lately and reading a chapter out of Piper’s Future Grace. I have been captivated by that concept of Future Grace. In essence, we as believers bank it all on future grace. I generally am focused on present grace for right now right here; but when in pain or suffering or discouragement, it is the hope of a better tomorrow or in five minutes or next year or in heaven that gives us enough to hang in there.
For the Christ follower, the best is yet to come. But it is also possible and actually probable that the worst in this life just might come also. Now that worse that is yet to come will be trumped by the best that is yet to come always ultimately in heaven. That’s where the future part of future grace comes in to play. That is what makes it hope being that it is not here yet. That is the nature of the Christ life. We are saved by faith, walk by faith, and live by faith in a future grace or in a future that is better than our present. This is the beauty of eternal security in that it’s a package deal that includes the finishing well, the future, or the eternity ahead that is guaranteed. Without the guarantee, there is no future grace to bank on.
That’s what Job was counting on although he had no written word from God to look to. In the midst of his difficulty with no explanations and no end in sight, he was committed to the One that he knew was so much more committed to him. His hope was not in a present circumstance or situation, but rather in the goodness and grace of God. . .until next time. . .Wes