“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,
you will receive what He has promised. For,
‘In just a little while,
He who is coming will come
and will not delay.’
And,
‘But my righteous one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back.’
But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed,
but to those who have faith and are saved.”
Hebrews 10:35-39
Maybe there are things in this life you’ve missed out on. All around you there are constant reminders of those things others enjoy and you don’t, and maybe in this life you most likely won’t.
Relationships are gone or never were.
That opportunity passed by.
You wonder what it would be like to live a day without pain or some other sickness.
You see the world normalizing behaviors you’re tempted to, but you choose not to indulge in.
Oh, you could run after them. You could leave the footsteps of Christ and fill your life with all kinds of things.
But you don’t. You don’t because as much as you desire those things, you desire Christ more.
Still, it’s hard.
I want to tell you what the Lord told me, because as His followers we’re all one in Christ: “Your day is coming.”
He sees the ache in our hearts, the longing for certain blessings, and though in this life we may never see them, our Father will more than make up for it. He sees our faithfulness and our love for Him and on that day we see Him face to face, He will flood us with a reward so powerful, so eternal, so full of Himself that we will instantly forget that we ever missed anything.
All we’ll know is completeness of love and joy. We will never want for anything again, and we will forever know a freedom the world never will.
For now, we remember that if God has chosen not to give us certain blessings now, it is out of an abundance of wisdom and righteousness. So we keep our eyes on Christ, our Redeemer and the Rewarder of our souls. And we walk by faith.
“He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!'”
Revelation 21:5
“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me,
and I will give to each person according to what they have done.”
Revelation 22:12