It’s easy to get caught up in the tyranny of the urgent. We can get so bogged down and stressed out over so many little details, like death by a thousand tiny paper cuts. We let things like paying bills and finding relationships and family illnesses rob us of our hope and our joy.

But if we do what Billy Graham did and turn to the last page of the Bible (not the concordance but Revelation 22), then we can see that everything is going to be fine. In fact, everything is going to be way better than fine. It’s going to be perfect. It will be like the original garden of Eden, only better.

I can be so short-sighted sometimes. I can get hyper-focused on the present and completely forget the future. I can envision all kinds of worst case scenarios, none of which have God anywhere in the picture. I can end up fretting and forgetting to pray.

But God has promised that He will work all things together for good to those of us who love God and are called according to His purpose. He who began a good work in us will finish it. Those aren’t nice sentiments or wishful thinking. They’re promises from the God who keeps His promises.

Anything we go through now can’t compare to what’s coming. That’s also a promise. The best is truly yet to come. The best is also right here with us now in the person of Jesus and in the loving arms of a loving Father and in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.