Reserved For You
You greatly rejoice, though
now for a little while, if need
be, you have been grieved
{1 Peter 1:6}
Have you ever taken one of those
vacations? You planned to arrive at
a distant location where you knew
you'd have a great time, but on the
way you had so many traveling diffi-
culties that you wondered if the journey
was worth it.
Car problems. Traffic delays. getting
lost. Sick kids. Irritable fellow travelers.
You knew the destination would be great,
but the trip was anything but smooth.
Yet you kept pressing on because you
knew it would be worth the trouble.
That's a picture of the Christian life.
Those who have trusted Jesus as
Saviour are on a journey filled with
difficulties, setbacks, tragedies, and
obstacles. Trouble always seems to be
present or just around the corner. But
we know that an indescribably great
destination is in our future {1 Peter 1:4}.
And sometimes the assurance of what's
reserved for us in heaven is all the keeps
us going.
Peter understood. He said that as we
make our way through life, we will suffer
grief as a result of our troubles. yet we
can actually rejoice through our diffi-
culties, because God has reserved some-
thing special for us at the end of the
journey.
Troubled today? Look ahead. Heaven
will be worth the trip.
The gains of heaven will more than
compensate us for the losses of earth!
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