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March 25
Thursday


FAR BETTER

READ:
REvelation 21:1-4
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God will wipe away
every tear from their
eyes; there shall be
no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying.
__Revelation 21:4
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Having suffered greatly--first from cancer, and then from the grueling medical regimen--pastor Dan Cummings was tired. After 2 weeks of treatment in Texas, he was looking forward to going back home to Michigan. In a post on his blog, he wrote: "Today is far better...amazing what some hydration will do...Will fly home on the weekend to continue treatment at home."

Dan did return to Michigan, but several days later, his journey on earth ended. He went home to be with his God--whom he loved with every bit of his weakened body but mightY spirit.

When I viewed his blog a few days later, his words "Today is far better" jumped out at me. I smiled through my tears in the knowledge that Dan was now experiencing life that is truly "far better' (Phil 1:23).

Someday we who claim the name of Jesus will also go to that place where there is "no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying." It's a place where there is no more pain and where a loving Father promises to "wipe away every tear from [our] eyes" (Rev. 21:4).

The life we have here isn't all there is. There is a far, far better place that Jesus is preparing for those who love Him (John 14:2-3).
__Cindy Hess Kasper
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```````````````````When our life on earth has ended``````````````
``````````````````We will feel God's warm embrace;``````````````
````````````````````There will be no pain or sorrow```````````````
`````````````````In that far, far better place. __Sper``````````````
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Heaven--no pain, no night, no death, no tears.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Revelatin 21:1-4************

1 Now I saw a new heaven
and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth
had passed away. Also there
was no more sea. 2 Then I,
John, saw the holy city,
New Jerusalem, coming
down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice
from heaven saying,
"Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and He
will dwell with them, and
they shall be His people.
God Himself will be with
them and be their God.

4 And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes;
there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor
crying. There shall be no
more pain, for the former
things have passed away."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

The picture of a new heaven and a new earth (v.1) is not a New
Testament idea that begins with or is exclusive to the apostle John.
Seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Isaiah
had already spoken of this new creation. And John's words in
Revelation 21:1 are reminiscent of Isaiah's prophecy: "For behold,
I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be
remembered or come to mind" (Isa. 65:17; also 66:22). Peter also
spoke of this new heaven and earth as a world filled with God's
righteousness (2 Peter 3:13). Those who are in Christ are already
part of the new creation who will populate this new heaven and
earth (2 Cor. 5:17); Gal. 6:15). _SIM KAY TEE