God’s word is calling us to contend for the faith today, so that his truth will be carried along into tomorrow.
He gives us his peace by His Spirit, to be displayed in our hearts, and in the Church.
Jesus has been made our priest forever, to purify us for worship, and to pronounce the Father’s blessing on us for the fight of faith.
God has brought you, and me, and all of us together to receive the gospel fully, and to advance the gospel further. This is the fellowship we’ve been called into with one another. This is what gospel partnership is.
But the permanent, perfect glory that we’re waiting for will arrive when Christ comes to His Church, to render her totally pure, to dwell in her midst, to fill her with visible, eternal glory, and to give her everlasting peace.
We know this, almost instinctively: when marriages and families are healthy, society will generally be good. But where marriages are trashed, families are fragmented, and individuals become socially isolated, the Word of God remains true: “It is not good for man to be alone."
If Christ is able to give us hope and new life in the midst of death, he is able to give us hope and life in every life situation.