The Best Is Yet to Come

"The Best is Yet to Come"
                                       

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Galations 5:22-23  NIV

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

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In my youth growing up, like many people, we sometimes had lunch on Sunday's with my grandmother.  Now, grandmother could be grumpy,  but, she would finish her lunch and start clearing the table; and as she picked up our plates, she often, said, "Keep your fork, the best is yet to come."  There were lots of grandmothers like this in my childhood day, telling her children and grandchildren to keep their fork.  Little did we know how profound she spoke.  She may have been grumpy, but her dessert was always the best.


Life, it is often filled with the PITs, Problems, Issues, and Troubles and we cannot avoid them.  As we try to avoid the PITs, our circumstances often bring them anyway.

The PITs may cause us to be unhappy, but even in our unhappiness, we can have vision to make Godly decisions as we walk in the Holy Spirit through the minefield of our PITs.  It is all about the goals we set.  In the Guidance of the Holy Spirit, we set better goals, worthy goals, and we cannot ever give up, even when the PITs get in our way.  And, it will happen!  Just never give up, and make any failures in your PITs be your stepping stones to success.

Even in unhappiness with our circumstances, we find Joy in life's trip of God-worthy everyday achievements.  
As happiness is a reflection of our circumstances, 
   Joy is found through the Holy Spirit and 
      becomes fruit of the Vine in our decision to be 
          in humble repentance in accepting 
              Christ Jesus and His salvation, and 
                  Seeking His Kingdom.  

Our happiness is circumstantial but Joy in the Holy Spirit is forever. 
Rise above your PITs, living in the Guidance of the Holy Spirit.

At the end of my Journey in this world with the Holy Spirit, as I lay in my casket, I will have a fork in my hand with a note card, "The Best is yet to come".  Near by will be this writing.  

My grand mother taught me to "Keep your fork", but in my mother dragging me to church I learned the wisdom in those words, "the best IS yet to come".  I learned, Believe in Jesus, Repent, Receive the Holy Spirit, Trust God, and bear fruit.  In this, we have the best of this world in us, and in the Promises of Jesus, 

the best IS STILL yet to come.

Thanks be to God
and for Godly-mothers and Wise-grandmothers.

(c) Lonnie Coggins

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Author's note-  Years ago, I read something similar to this in another magazine, Guide Posts I think.  This is my experience, my writing.  I am thankful it made an impression on me.  The Best is still to come.   

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MOTHERES ARE SPECIAL, so to are GRANDMOTHERS.  Grandmothers often have great thoughts that mothers have to teach the real meaning, one day at a time.   Click to find out about how true it is that: the best is yet to come. Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications.  For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB-"A Daily Thought".

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Hold on to Difficult Scripture

Two Difficult Scriptures       

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Herein you will read of two "difficult" scriptures of Jesus' teachings or examples we should follow; and one scripture from St. Paul that can be called "difficult".   In coming to take the Resurrection of Jesus as a true vindication of all Jesus did, say, and teach through his example, we have to come to terms with what we read in the scriptures and do not totally understand.  In not understanding scriptures we read, we must then seek to understand!  Then in coming to understand, we gain wisdom.

Our lack of understanding is often in the lack of meaning of the English words translated from the original ancient Greek or as in the OT- Hebrew.  To seek meaning, find commentaries, books, explore explanations found on the internet, but seek the meaning, and you will find inspiration to better know the scriptures.  Through the study of several commentaries, when we come to understand the original meaning of the translated Greek word and thus, we better know what the English translation is truly saying.  
It truly can be a heavenly moment or just a good old "Ah-haaaa!"
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In Paul's epistle, verse 18 of 1st Thessalonians we find the verses translated well, but still on first reading we most likely fail in seeing the true meaning of what he says.  It requires thought to get the real meaning of "in all circumstances".  If you do not see the real meaning of these words, be patient, think.  This is one of those times that after you read what the words really say you will want to kick yourself for not realizing its real meaning before peaking at the answer.

1st Thessolonians 5:17-18
17  pray continually;
18  give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

Giving thanks in all circumstances is truly, on the surface difficult. But in the writing below, it is explained what God wants us to really do.  Have you figured it out yet?   No commentary needed for this one.  Just some goood thinking skills.

Click here:  Give thanks in all Circumstances, Really?

yes! really!

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Matthew 26:39  Going a little farther, he fill with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will but as you will."
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Matthew 26:42

42 He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done."

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Matthew 26:44 

44 So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

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Far too often we want to solve our problems and then persist in our misery thinking less of ourselves if we give up trying. But, sometimes we need to determine we just need to persevere in giving up to God, Praying, "Not my will, but yours be done."

This was prayed by Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus gives us the example verified by His resurrection to follow not only what he did, but how he lived and how he prayed. When He prayed this, He knew he was facing the most important moment in the history of man, His death by crucifixion.
In following Jesus' command, "Seek the Kingdom..." we can do no less in our times of trials. In my lowest moment in Vietnam, in this petition of my prayer, Vietnam became the most important moment of my history.

Let your trials become a testimony by breathing in the Holy Spirit.

Click Here:    Knowing the Holy Spirit Within You

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Matthew 5:5  

  Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

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Until just a few years ago, I did not like this scripture and I considered it to say we were to be as a door mat;  Plus, it just did not seem to go with how Jesus lived his life. Oh, he was meek and mild mannered most of the time, but a few times, at the end of his ministry, he was like a hungry cat ready to shred. Just read Matthew 23, where he went after the "Pharisees and teachers of the law" like a father taking an errant child to the woodshed.

But when I read the Biblical meaning behind the words, they became something truly to live up to. We have to remember that it was in Jesus' Resurrection that all He said, all He did, and everything about Him was truly and absolutely vindicated.

In this writing, the meaning of this scripture is discussed so that you can realize it is for your life to be truly humble.... even in your boldness to further His Kingdom.

Click Here:  Meekness or Boldness,
                     How do we be Bold While being Humble

Thanks Be to God

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Some scriptures are just difficult to understand and run counter to commen sense.  But, common sense is sometimes the way of the world and does not fit with God's way.  For some scripture that is hard to understand we just need to hold on to it, pray about it, study, pray about it, and eventually it does make sense.  It gives you a new o\Outlook, a new Vision, a new Insight on Common Sense- God's way.  Click the link for the discussion on two difficult scriptures and share on FB as you are lead to do so.

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