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God Isn’t Finished Yet

There is a reason Paul and the writer of Hebrews repeatedly refer to life as a race, a journey requiring perseverance, strength, and, above all, the help of the Spirit. The race is long, but when we dedi­cate our next steps, our decisions, our very lives to the Lord, He will equip us for what is ahead, all the while holding the end in His loving hands.

A good friend prayed over me a few years ago, “Lord, help us re­member that it ends with us with You.” This stuck. I go back to these words and whisper them to myself on hard days. Lord, this all ends with us with You.

God’s finished work in the garden was good, His finished work on the cross was good, and His finished work in eternity is good. If you are looking around and things don’t seem good now, you can rest assured that is because God is not yet finished.

The picture of the idyllic garden in Eden where God first places man and woman is strikingly similar to Revelation 22, a passage I often read when I need some grounding and peace. But in verse 2, a phrase is added that makes my breath catch in my throat a little: “The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.”

He intends our healing. Not just physically in our new bodies but spiritually, emotionally, holistically. In the restored Eden, the eternal garden, there will be no curse and there will be no night. All things, including us, will be perfectly whole and complete. God, who formed us of dust and breathed life into us, so desires to be with us that we will one day look upon His face forever. His finished work will be good far beyond what we can imagine, and we will experience the most complete and perfect peace.

Beloved, it’s not the end yet.

God isn’t finished yet.

How can you shift your daily interactions with others, your daily tasks, and your daily thoughts to reflect what you believe about heaven? What difference does it make in your everyday life that God intends our healing?