Know There is Better

This is quite the reminder for me this morning. We have to know there is better for which we are moving toward.

“¹³These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.” – Hebrews 11:13-16 (ESV)

When we look back in the Old Testament, there are a number of faithful righteous men and women that continued to seek better even though the thoughts of it were a bit far-fetched. Noah built an ark for a flood that was nowhere to be seen. Abraham, went to a promised land in a foreign land he had not been to. Sarah sought faithfully to conceive a child even though she was “too old” and considered “barren”.

Each of these as others were seeking faithfully due to knowing there was better waiting for them. They all could have taken the “safe” way and; stopped building the “foolish ark”, stayed in the land that was familiar, and given up on having children.

We have an opportunity to seek that which is better. We are in this world to do the will of God and in doing so we have to act on our faith in that what we are tasked with is better than what we have now. We could fall back on the familiar, but wouldn’t that be the same as giving up on God?

What is there that you have been pursuing that is better? Are you faced with the possibility of giving up and going back to the familiar? Will you press on knowing that it is better?