The Best is Yet to Come

I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God 

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There have been two things consuming my thoughts for a few months now – each have drawn my attention by multiple people coming from all different places.  

The first was posed as a question: What if I lived every day and approached every instance as Christ-centered? Heard this before? I know personally I’ve grown up with this challenge ringing in my ears. But have you and I truly made an effort to live this out? I’m challenging myself to not view this question as a concept or an idea that is “just a little bit out of my reach”. I believe with my WHOLE heart and soul that this is and can be a reality. By no means will my efforts be perfect but it is the effort of living this out that makes it worthwhile. What this means to me, and it may be different for you, is to make an intentional choice to be aware of and have reverence for His presence throughout my day. I desire to make Him my priority; for Christ is more than worthy of all my time. It is making a choice to throw off all that hinders in order that I may love others more fully and please Him in all that I do. I often imagine what it would feel like to say to God, “Father, I have given you every ounce of my everything to you and for you – Your will be done.” Imagine the love and the fulfillment of that statement. I hope that gives you chills. But by golly, that statement does not come with plush comfort or little sacrifice – it’s an uphill battle that requires me and you to fight against those things that so easily and quickly entangle us; we must push through and move forward, grasping onto the Truth of Christ and relying on the love our Father bestows on us.

The second is a message that gives me so much hope and it came after I had been dwelling on the previous message through a swanky tune by my man, Frank Sinatra (Man did God know what would capture my attention or what haha). It was during a time I was doing my best to navigate life’s many twists and turns and loop-dee-loops with the approach and mindset of the first message yet I would become discouraged every now and then.

The song? 

The Best is Yet to Come (S W O O N)

The chorus of this tune joyfully rung in my ears and soul for quite some time now and still does today.

“The Best is yet to come and babe wont that be fine.

You think you’ve seen the sun, but you ain’t seen it shine

 (come that day that you’re mine)”

The BEST is yet to come. His Best is coming soon and what a lovely message of hope as we desire and give it our all to live out a Christ-centered life. I am more than aware that living a Christ-Centered life is not the easiest road to travel on; Christ makes that clear to His followers. It is sure to seem like a desert at times and can make the action of throwing in the towel seem very desire-some. But He is not short in His rich, glorious and worthwhile promises.

Choose Christ and act faithfully for His best is yet to come.