It is better
far better
Scripture Reading: Hosea 2:14-23; Luke 15:11-32, 23:26-43
The Lord spoke to Israel through the prophet Hosea saying the day would come when “you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer call me ‘My Master,’” (Hosea 2:16).
When the Prodigal Son returned home, he expected the best he could hope for would be to be hired as a servant in his father’s house. But the father said about his repentant child, “This is my son,” (Luke 15:24).
The grandest dream of the penitent thief, who died on a cross alongside our Savior, was that on some distant future day, when the Kingdom of Christ had fully come, that Jesus might have some remembrance of him. Jesus, looking over at him said, “Today, you will be with me in Paradise,” (Luke 23:43).
I don’t know what your best hopes are for how God might think of you. Nor do I know what you imagine heaven to be like. But I know that however great and beautiful you think it is, it is far better.
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those that love him,” (1 Corinthians 2:9).