I was reading Revelation chapter twenty-one this morning and found it to be quite a stress on my, “believer”. This chapter is a future look at the state of both the redeemed in Christ and the damned that refuse to believe. It is most certainly the extreme of all contrasts. The future of those who believe and trust in Christ is blest beyond our poor capacity to believe.
However, as I thought on this it is obvious that it takes far more “faith” to not believe. To believe that a world of such order is the product of chaos is foolish credulity in the extreme. It is a wanton disregard of such abundant evidence. Psalm nineteen maintains that “The heavens declare the glory of God…” and so it does to any that will give it an honest appraisal.
Pastor Weber is leading us in an exercise of apologetics in our adult Sunday School class and it appears to me to be an essential for any growing believer. This class establishes the validity of our belief and this belief is indeed challenged by the rich and abundant blessings that God has promised to His children. It reminds me of the old adage, “too good to believe”. I will put it this way, our future in Christ is so good it is difficult to believe. It is a good reminder of Psalm one:
Psalm 1:1-6 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
