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SEPTEMBER 22
SOME BETTER THING
“And these all, having
obtained a good report
through faith, received not
the promise: God having
provided some better thing
for us, that they without us
should not be made perfect.”
(Heb. 11:39-40)
The generations which have
gone before us have all
“died in faith, not having
received the promises, but
having seen them afar off,
and were persuaded of them,
and embraced them, and
confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on
the earth.” They were
seeking a country, their
fatherland, that heavenly
realm to which they pledged
their allegiance. Any time
you declare that you seek a
better realm, it immediately
signifies that the present
realm is not satisfactory to
you, and such a confession
will invoke the displeasure
of the present realm,
alienate their sympathy, and
receive their condemnation,
for your “GOING ON” to lay
hold of a BETTER is evidence
that they are unable to
satisfy you. They will
persecute, speak evil of,
impute wrong motives, and
number you with the
transgressors. It is a part
of the price which must be
paid, because we have
received a vision of the
better.
Because God had us in mind,
and had something better and
greater in view for us,
these past generations –
heroes and heroines of
faith, could not come to
perfection apart from us,
that is, before we could
join them. God has provided
– literally, from the Greek,
foreseen, that in these
latter days, as this present
evil age comes to its close,
there would be precious
movings of His Spirit, and
entrances into reserved
blessings and glories which
would super-abound beyond
the ravages of evil, and
enable us to break through
into dimensions of total
overcoming.
“Now all these things
happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are
written for our admonition,
upon whom the ends of the
world (ages) are come.” (1
Cor. 10:11). They blazed the
trail, they gave the example
of this walk of faith, they
saw the vision and embraced
it – and died clinging to
the promises. And while they
could not precede us into
its fulfillment, they, with
us, shall enter into the
joys of our Lord.
Ray Prinzing |
