Dearly Beloved
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The Times Are Gonna be Changin’

Dearly beloved of God, the times in which we live are evil, but do not faint; that is all going to change!

The certainty that Christ is coming to save and redeem the members of his body, the Church, his dearly beloved brethren, is as certain as you are reading these words. He is coming!

These evil times are not eternal; they are but for a fleeting moment. They produce “light affliction” for us compared to “the far more exceeding and eternal heavy weight of glory” the Father has laid up for His dearly beloved children.

Beloved, the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that will be revealed to us; we will be glorified together with Christ!

It is going to take our Father the ages to come to display the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Just think of that!

It is not only the extraordinary amount of blessing our Father has in store for us, or the vast extent of time that it will take Him to demonstrate these blessings to us that stands out in this verse, but our Father’s heart toward us is also laid bare to the eye.

These exceeding riches of grace will come from a loving Father with an intense desire to demonstrate His kindness to His dearly beloved children.

We will have fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore at His right hand. He has comfort, rest, joy, and glory reserved for us. He will restore all the years the adversary has stolen from us and so much more.

Our Father determined that we will be joint heirs with Christ, and Christ Jesus the Lord will clothe us with glorious bodies like his glorious body at his coming, and that is only the opening event of eternity.

God will wipe away all our tears; there will no longer be any reason to cry. He will destroy the devil and those of his kingdom; we will no longer have to wrestle with the adversary.

There will be no more death, neither sorrow, neither any more pain, for the former things will pass away. We will live under the goodness of God forever. There is nothing good that He will withhold from us! He will make all things new again.

What more can we say than, “Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!”

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” I Corinthians 2:9

Our Heavenly Father has only drawn back the curtain of eternity and given us a peek into the future glorious realities that await us in Christ.

Dearly beloved, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in the mystery of God concerning Christ. (You may want to read that statement again….) The Father hid this vast wisdom and knowledge in Himself before He revealed it.

If it is going to take Him the ages to come to show us all of His kindness in Christ Jesus, just think of the treasures He must yet have hidden away from our view concerning our glorious hope!

Beloved, we are sealed for eternal life and we will partake of a glorious inheritance!

Dearly beloved, be confident of this very thing, that He Which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The day is swiftly approaching that our hope will become a present eternal reality! Be confident that our Father will bring the good work of salvation that He began in us to its full and glorious end.

God called us to acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rejoice forevermore! Tick tock….