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Future Glory vs Accepting 2nd best and Giving second best

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed! Rom 8:18

One of the important lessons from the life of David is that God wants to give us the best and he expects the best from us. We live in a world where instant gratification is the norm. We are told we must have everything now. God says, there is a time and a season; the prophecy awaits the appointed time.
In Romans 12 we are told about what acceptable worship looks like. The word worship comes from the Anlo-Saxon word worth. It is about giving worth, giving value to an object or person.

We value things more when we have to work hard for them. At the end of the season when we win the ACF football trophy (oh yes we'll win!) we'll value it because we know how much sweat, bumps and bruises it has taken to get there and win.

In 2 Samuel 24:24 David resolved never to give God second best, never to give God something that cost him nothing. Romans 12 urges us to give our lives as living sacrifices. A sacrifice costs, it is not a sacrifice if it does not cost you something.

CT Studd one of the pioneer missionaries to China said "if Christ be God and died for me, no sacrifice is too great for me to give to him." When we serve God be it in helping out in a soup kitchen for the homeless, working on the mixing deck or cameras at church, singing in the music group, or whereever we may serve; we must resolve to give God our best?

In our church attendance and time keeping, we must resolve to give God our best. In our giving and tithes, we must resolve to give God our best. In every area of our lives, God deserves the best.

God has plans to prosper us, to give us hope and a future. We must never sell ourselves short whether it is in relationships or work or any other area of life. We must also resolve to give God the best in our relationship, service, humility, adoration, obedience and giving.
God has placed us in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus. We are called sons of God, and that is what we are. We are children of God, adopted into his family through Christ Jesus, we share in the many great promises in the scriptures. God has promised to provide for our every need. He says you will be the head and not the tail. He also promises to keep in perfect peace those whose mind is fixed on Him. God has promised us life in all its fullness.

Maybe God's promises have become too familiar to us that we fail to understand their implications. It is time for us to stand on God's word and not be led by our own understanding or circumstances, for God's word is steadfast and sure. He is a God who keeps his promises.

It is time to stop settling for second best.

It is time to stop giving God our left overs. It is time to offer God our best. It is time to receive God's best.

We may have to wait patiently for it, remember, they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they will walk and not grow weary, run and not faint, they will rise on wings like eagles, their youth will be renewed.

Like David discovered, God's best is well worth waiting for.

Dont wear yourself out for things that wont last, rather run to win the prize that will last for eternity.

Romans 8:18 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope thatt the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.




We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

For in this hope we were saved.

But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.