Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com
What are your top five greatest days…
Hmm…. When I accepted Christ, When I got married, When my boys accepted Christ… When I was told my cancer was in remission and I would not be dying any time soon… now thats four… what would the other be… and in what rank?
I was talking to someone recently and I said…
It was the second best day of my life.
And they said “wow…. What was the first?”(someone...
Garth Heckman
The David Alliance
TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com
What are your top five greatest days…
Hmm…. When I accepted Christ, When I got married, When my boys accepted Christ… When I was told my cancer was in remission and I would not be dying any time soon… now thats four… what would the other be… and in what rank?
I was talking to someone recently and I said…
It was the second best day of my life.
And they said “wow…. What was the first?”(someone asks:what was the first?)
Me: I said - It hasn’t happened yet,
Now here is a question… what would be the best day of my life - how would I know what it is if I have not yet seen it or experienced it?
Pretty simple actually…
its when I see Jesus!
Why will it be the best day of my life…
Oh I can rattle of a bunch of reasons…
See my family
Live in Christ presence forever
No more sickness or disease
Worship with the greatest saints
I get a mansion, a crown and an inheritance…
But mostly it will be the greatest
And here is the best of all. Jeremiah 32:40: “I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.”
When we enter into our reward, we will be fully and finally sanctified. That is, we will be fully and finally holy. There will be no more sin, no more desire for sin in us. We will have no more sin nature in us; we will be altogether good. We, like God Himself, will be free to do evil, were we so to desire, but we would never so desire because we will be altogether good. This is one of the greatest promises of eternity, that the struggle within ourselves between the old and the new man, between the Spirit and the flesh will be over. We will be at peace; we will enter into rest. Our warfare will have ended.
No more sin nature… now thats a good day, a best day and in fact a best eternity….
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. (Jude 24–25)
Think of it like this…
Since “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23, NIV), the promise of no more death on the New Earth is synonymous with a promise of no more sin. Since sinners always die, those who are promised they will never die are being promised they will not sin anymore.
News flash… I still struggle with sin… I do believe its less and less each year and I am still trying to be completely sinless… will I achieve it? Probably not… but Im giving it a fighting chance.
So what is this about today… simply to revel in a sinless existence in eternity…. Well, sure. But it is ultimately to give us hope and give us AWE into who God is. We can rest, rejoice in the middle of a sinful struggle in our flesh that someday that will no longer be an issue… and for that I am and will be forever grateful.
