Sweet Foretaste

For sure, I’ve never boasted of being an excellent cook but there are a few things (through the years) my boys liked - my peanut butter cookies, my broccoli casserole, my homemade hot chocolate and my fresh apple cake. It’s very much appropriate that Believers should have some other-world longings. There are many who approach Christmas with a deep sense of loss  realizing the absence of loved ones. Be alert to overwhelming sadness and the potential for bitterness! In his book Good News of Great Joy, John Piper writes, “O, don’t let all the sweet things of this season become substitutes of the final great, all-satisfying Sweetness. Let every loss and every delight send your heart a-homing after heaven.” Jesus, The Promised King, arrived in Bethlehem bringing Life abundant! The sweet delights of this world are only a foretaste of the Sweet-and-Glorious Delights of the world-to-come! What Joy awaits Believers in heaven – Jesus our King along with some very special people! Oh, a foretaste of glory divine is the blessed  assurance of Jesus! "Make your Now the richer and deeper this Christmas by drinking at the fountain of Forever. It is so near.” Celebrate the ... sweet foretaste!