That Day

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6 ESV)

Every dog has its day, they say, and so even the worst of us experience successes and good days. Have you ever had one of those days? A day that you wish would never end? A perfect day, or a special day when something unbelievable happened and you just basked in awe about how good life could be?

If you have, then you are blessed. One popular song put it this way:

I'm never gonna look back,
Whoa, never gonna give it up,
No, please don't wake me now
Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo, woo-oo-oo-oo-oo
This is gonna be the best day of my life . . .*

We can appreciate the joy of life and the feeling the songwriter and artist were expressing above, but . . .

. . . not all days are like those days, are they? Some days are bad and sometimes the bad days seem like they will never stop coming. Sometimes life just seems like there are many more bad days than good ones. Perhaps you are in a place like that now.

In one sense the bad days are there for a reason. They are meant to teach us to appreciate the good ones when they come along. But if this is so, then what are the good days for?

Good days are gifts of God. Good days are unmerited favor from God's hand intended to make us look up, to look to him from whom every good gift comes. Good days all point forward to that day--the day alluded to in that verse we quoted above. The day of Jesus Christ.

That day is coming and that day, for us who are in Christ, will be the greatest day there ever was or ever could be. That is the day when our redemption is complete. That is the day when we are completely remade into what God intended for us in the first place. That day is the day when all that was lost in Adam will be restored in Christ. That is the day when we will experience fully all the riches and blessings earned by Christ Jesus on our behalf. That day is our day of Jubilee.

That day is coming and make no mistake about it--in Christ, we were intended for that day. 

Do you struggle with sin? Do you struggle with doubt? Do you struggle with disease? Or loneliness? Has life been a struggle or do you find yourself in a struggle right now? Understand that today, this day, is not the day for which we are ultimately intended. There is coming a better day. That day.

So lift up your heads, my friends, your redemption draweth nigh.

*Best Day of My Life by American Authors