The Best is Yet to Come!

The Best is Yet to Come! A simple yet profound statement. 
It’s the statement I heard Christmas Day (2013). On Christmas Day I was thinking of my birthday coming up the next week. A new decade for me. As I thought on the next season of my life, I reasoned that I hadn’t accomplished much thus far. I wondered if I would accomplish much now. It was then I heard the LORD say, “The best is yet to come!” 
As those words invaded my pondering, I even wondered if I’d heard right. One thing I was sure of was, I had not been thinking in that direction! Right then and there I was presented with a choice— the choice of whether I was going to believe it or not. I chose to believe that the best is yet to come — and it’s true for me!
Two weeks after my birthday I have written in my journal, “Everywhere I look I see the phrase the LORD gave me Christmas Day, “The best is yet to come.” I began to get excited about just what that means. I began to thank the LORD as I started to take this to heart.
But then…….the next month arrives and with it the very opposite of “the best”. Thunder and lightning, a shaking kind of storm arrives on the scene. Once again, I have a choice — do I believe what I have heard or do I forget in the dark storm what I heard in the light? I continued to hear and see the phrase every where. Sometimes at the oddest moments. 
For example one evening I was feeling weighed down with the storm. I was at one of Jonathan’s track meets. It was getting dark so they turned on the outside lights. The lights weren’t very bright but one was shining on the bottom portion of another parents t-shirt, who just happened to be seated right in front of me. It said, “The best is yet to come.”  I started to laugh! I said, “LORD, You have got to be kidding me.” I began to tell the LORD I believed and asked Him to help me where I didn’t. In that moment I was undone by His faithfulness. I made the decision that no matter what it looked like in the natural I was going to believe what I had heard the LORD speak to me.
Things did not change the next day. But I was changed. My hope wasn’t dependent on what I saw around me. My hope was now firmly anchored in JESUS and what He had to say about it all. 
Some things have been shifting. Some things have stayed the same. But this I know……. “The Best is Yet to Come!” I have no doubt about that!