Devotion:
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Read Revelation 21:1-7.
Here is the best news you can get: the vision given to us at the end of the Bible assures us that God’s mission and purpose is going to triumph in the end! We have a hope-filled future! No matter what happens between now and then, God is planning to create “a new heaven and a new earth….” As long as you and I stay connected to God and seek to serve God’s mission in the world, we can look forward to spending eternity with God and those who love God.
John had been exiled to the isle of Patmos. While there, he received this vision to give to the Christians of his time, as well as to God’s people of all times and places. The powers of this world may have their moments and seasons of ruling with fear and deception and misuse of their power. But it will not last. No matter what we face in this world, Jesus promised us that he had overcome the world, and this Revelation vision gives us confidence in how it all is going to end.
The end of the story is a new creation, where we get to spend eternity with God! You can’t get any better news than that!
Personal Worship Option:
In my childhood and teenage years in the Church, we sang “When We All Get To Heaven” a lot. Here are two verses and the chorus of the words Eliza Hewitt wrote:
While we walk the pilgrim pathway, clouds will overspread the sky; but when traveling days are over, not a shadow, not a sigh.
Let us then be true and faithful, trusting, serving every day; just one glimpse of him in glory will the toils of life repay.
When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be! When we all see Jesus, we’ll sing and shout the victory!
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