Look Beyond Jehovah's Great Day

You will be able to await Jehovah's day with a calm heart if you keep everlasting life in view.  (Jude 20, 21)  You look forward to eternal life in Paradise, and thus you have the hope of renewed youthful vitality and unlimited time to pursue wholesome goals and learn more about Jehovah. You can actually go on learning about God forever because humans now know only  "the fringes of his ways." (Job 26:14) What exciting prospects! 

In Paradise, resurrected ones will be able to fill in some gaps in our knowledge of the past. Enoch will be there to explain how he had the courage needed to declare Jehovah's message to ungodly people.  (Jude 14, 15) Noah will certainly relate what it was lie to build the ark. Abraham and Sarah will be able to reveal how they felt about leaving the comforts of Ur and living in tents.  Think of Esther supplying details about how she stood up  for her people and foiled Haman's plot against them.  (Esther 7:1-6) Imagine Jonah telling about his three days in the belly of the big fish or John the Baptize  describing his feelings when he baptized Jesus.  (Luke 3:21, 22; 7:28) What intriguing things to learn!

During Christ's Thousand Year Reign, you may be privileged to help resurrected ones to gain "the very knowledge of God."  (Proverbs 2:1-6) Today, what a pleasure it is to see people take in knowledge of Jehovah God and act upon it!  But  think of your joy at that future time when Jehovah blesses your efforts to instruct people from bygone eras and they respond with appreciative hearts!

The benefits we now enjoy as Jehovah's people are beyond our imperfect efforts to number or evaluate.  (Psalm 40:5) Especially are we grateful for God's spiritual provisions.  (Isaiah 48:17, 18) Regardless of our circumstances, let us wholeheartedly render sacred service as we await the great day of Jehovah.  

Next time: "STAND FIRM AND SEE THE SALVATION OF JEHOVAH"

From the Watchtower magazine, 2007