Our Eternal Heavenly Future

 The world in which we live is a fallen world; a place of sufferings and trials, a time of heartaches and problems; a life of difficulties and sickness, and a season of disappointments and death.
 Afflictions and anguish stalk our path like a hungry pack of wolves and they are no respecter of persons or position, clime or creed, wise or foolish, young or old, believer or unbeliever. If this were all that life offered to humanity, we would indeed be the most miserable of species, we would remain dead in trespasses and sins, without God and without any hope in the world.
 Suffering and all its aggressive associates pale into blinded insignificance when placed in their correct eternal perspective, when laid alongside the truth of the gospel and the glory that shines forth from its eternal pages, they are not even worthy to be considered in the same breath as our reality in Christ and our eternal heavenly future.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank you for Your wonderful words of wisdom in Scripture. May we become so firmly grounded in the truth of Your Word and the glory that it reveals, that we can place the sufferings of this present time in their correct perspective. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.