As winter turns to spring, what are you hoping for? To get the vaccine, the end of restrictions, to get back to work, to take a holiday?
These glimpses of normality have been dangled in front of us for months like the proverbial carrot. The waiting has led to frustration, despair, and often a sense of hopelessness. But, perhaps that’s the point. Perhaps, among all the other lessons to learn from this pandemic, God wants to reorient our hope – for us to see the ultimate fruitlessness of earth-bound hope and long for something better.
Hebrews 11:16 talks of our eternal inheritance as ‘a better country’ and it will certainly be that. No more tears, separation, pain and death in the new heavens and the new earth (Rev. 21:1-5). At the moment we live in a fragile world. Our health, finances, assumptions and routines have been shaken like never before. But, we are heading for an eternal kingdom which cannot be shaken (Heb. 12:28).
