I won’t lie. Sometimes I long for heaven. I get tired. I get weary. I get discouraged. I see all the pain and suffering and I long to be rid of it all. I have my own aches and pains which I know will not go away until heaven. But then, like Paul, I realize there is still so much to do and so much I want to do. My sin is great; grace is greater. My discouragement sometimes wants to take over; grace says nope.
I’m looking for a perfect world. Not here. I know that will never be. Huey Lewis once sang a song called Perfect World in which he talked about everyone getting along. It didn’t happen in the Garden; it didn’t happen with Cain and Abel; it isn’t going to happen this side of eternity.
I can’t, for a moment, imagine a perfect world. No tension. No separation from God. No pollution. No cancer or any other disease. No hate. No violence. No pain. No distrust. No impure thoughts. No addictions. The list is endless. The wish is endless as well. But I can sure dream of that perfect world.
Someday. Someday. Because of the cross, someday there will be a day when perfection is here. There will be a perfect world. The enemy was defeated at the cross; someday he will be annihilated and sent to a lake of fire NEVER to raise his ugly head again.
“Until that day, Father, I choose to trust you. I choose to trust you will never turn your face from me. Mercy and grace will lead me home to you and to your perfect world. I can’t wait.”
Redemption… Hard to believe how far the world has fallen. I am in agreement and also desire that perfection… Unless I don’t. I don’t have to look to deep within myself before I begin to see the ugly that I despise. I am thankful for God’s plan of redemption. His plan to take the imperfect, the broken, the lost, and make me his own. His plan to make me His child. He no longer has to see me as broken or imperfect, but can see me as new and without flaw. I too look to the day when I can view myself the same way.
Ryan S
That look deep within can be very uncomfortable. I’m glad God looks inside and doesn’t turn away.
Amen! Someday, and oh what a beautiful day that will be!
Agreed!
Mercy and grace will lead us home . . .
Blessings, Bill!
And I will gladly follow those two.
I’m with you on this one too, Bill. “What a day of rejoicing that will be!”