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The Final Word

For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.  Psalm 119:89

As we survey the world with Bible in hand, we know we do not worship an absentee God. He is standing in the shadows of history, still working to bring His plans to completion.

Therefore, we are not disturbed by the pictures of chaos, violence, bloodshed, and war that fill our television screens and flood our newspapers. We know these are the consequences of humanity's evil and sin, caused by our rebellion against God. Every headline, every news report confirms what the prophet Jeremiah said centuries ago: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9).

But never forget: God will speak history's final word. Every day, the world moves closer to the time when Christ will return, Satan will be defeated, and God's perfect plan will be fulfilled.

No matter how foreboding the future, the Christian knows the end of the story--and it is glorious! Don't lose heart. The best is yet to be!

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.