WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?

[Editor's Note: Belinda and I were ministering in South Africa for the past month, and devotional posts have been unavailable.  We are now home in Connecticut.  Thanks so much for your understanding and prayers].

WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?

Belinda and I were deeply saddened on Sunday when we learned of the passing of Lady Valerie Sexton while we were ministering in South Africa.  Lady Valerie ‘is’ an extraordinary disciple of Jesus Christ, a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and capable First Lady of Mt. Sinai Cathedral in Brooklyn, New York.  We are fully confident that she now inhabits eternity – in sweet communion with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. 

We offer fervent prayers for Bishop Clarence Sexton, Jr., the entire Sexton Family, the Mt. Sinai Cathedral Family, the New York 4^th Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and all who have known and loved Lady Valerie Sexton.

In a world where supreme emphasis and confidence are all too often invested in the here-and-now, what thought have YOU given to the possibility of meeting your Maker, either today or tomorrow?  What will it be like to see JESUS and inherit the benefits of an eternal fellowship with Him and all the saints of the ages? Harry Blamires offered an apt description of the afterlife in his article entitled “The Eternal Weight of Glory,” published by “Christianity Today” in June, 2003.

Blamires confirms the grand and glorious hope of a resurrection for all believers in Christ Jesus.  But he wonders (in his article) what the resurrected body would actually be like.  Not surprisingly, Blamires offers the helpful illustration of the butterfly.  As the caterpillar is to the butterfly, so our present body is to our resurrected body.  There is continuity but there is also difference.

Just as the caterpillar’s body is suited to the realm of the ground, and the butterfly’s to flight through the air, so our present bodies may be suited to this world of sin, but our resurrected bodies will be suited to the life of the Spirit, existing in a world that is eternal and without limits.  And just as it would be impossible for the most intelligent caterpillar to begin to imagine what life would be like as a butterfly, so we struggle to imagine the resurrection life.  In the words of the Apostle Paul, “we know in part.” (I Corinthians 13:12)

But we may be absolutely sure that it will be an entirely superlative and supernatural experience.  The Word tells us that “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which GOD has prepared for those who love Him.” (I Corinthians 2:9)

When we think of the caterpillar, we think of its life in terms of it morphing into a butterfly.  We define its present existence by its future.  So too, our present existence is defined by the future God has in store for us.  Hold on, my friend.  It will be worth it all when we see Jesus.

Keep your eyes on the prize!

Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING. Maranatha!