Grand Blessings from God
“God will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be any more” (Revelation 21:3,4). Do you want to live in peace and happiness? Do you desire good health and long life to see wickedness and suffering end? Every honest-hearted person wants these things. But today, in all parts of the earth, violence, wickedness, crime, hunger and sickness are increasing. Why is the world so filled with trouble? What does it all mean? Is there any sound reason to believe that conditions will really get better in our lifetime?
Yes, there is reason for such hope, and it is clearly set out in a book that is published in more languages than any other book in the world. That book is the BIBLE. It tells us of God’s purpose to set up an entirely new system of things for mankind. If you had the power to do so, would you not bring to an end the conditions that cause so much sorrow? Of course you would! Should we think that the Creator of mankind will do any less?
The Bible tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). Surely this loving heavenly Father knows what mankind needs. He has the power to fulfil and satisfy those needs and He will most certainly do so: “You are opening your hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing.” (Ps 145:16 and see Deut 32:4).
When will God satisfy man’s desire for true peace and happiness along with lasting health and life? Must mankind wait for thousands of years more? No! The time is near at hand. But how can this be? Conditions in the world are getting worse not better. True, but the Bible clearly showed long in advance that those very conditions would be proof that we are living in the last days of the present wicked system (2 Tim 3:1-5). Soon the loving Creator will bring to their end both the wickedness and those who cause it. But God will richly bless honest-hearted ones who want to do what is right. The world is passing away and so is its desires but he that does the will of God remains for ever (1 John 2:17).
Bro Francis Mayende
Bro Francis Mayende (Bungoma, Kenya)
