When we look at the world, we are overwhelmed. We are surrounded by heartache and sorrow, swallowed up and barely able to breathe. Any attempt to find hope for a better tomorrow often leaves us even deeper in hopelessness. Yet for those in Christ, the momentary darkness of this world will make way for an eternal light.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more—or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist. (Revelation 21:4)
Though we try to think otherwise, we adults are as foolish and short-sighted as children. We see our current circumstances and feel like there’s no chance of things changing. We may even feel like giving up our pursuit of holiness and closeness with God. After all, what does it get us?
We look around and lose heart. Yet when we remember our savior and the eternity He bought for us, we are able to look up. We remember Christ, we remember His blood, and we remember that this lifetime will soon be nothing more than a brief memory.
Are you feeling overwhelmed this week? Does the pursuit of righteousness lack the shine and glamour that sin seems to hold? Living day-to-day can feel like wading through mud, difficult and exhausting and always ready to pull us down.
Don’t look around at the mud pit you’re stuck in. Instead, look up to the one coming to rescue us, pulling us from the muck and placing us on a new Earth free from sin and sorrow and pain. The joy of an eternity spent with our savior seems so distant, and sin is so close. Have faith in these temporary circumstances, look up to our unfailing savior, and keep pursuing the only one who can truly satisfy us, today and forever.
Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)
