The Best is Yet to Come
All Saints Day - The Great Saints of the Past
The Best is Yet to Come
Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16
The great saints of the past lived their lives dreaming about the future—God’s future for the whole world, indeed the whole cosmos. We can take courage, hope, and comfort from looking at their example of forward-looking faith.
Today we celebrate with much of the Christian world; All Saints Day. The Church observes feast days for many of the saints of the past, but as the centuries wore on there became too many to fit into one calendar year. So on November 1st each year we gather them together and celebrate them all at once.
And it occurs to me how ironic it is that while we look back to remember and honor these giants along our path, which is appropriate, they lived their lives looking forward to our time, and beyond. Because that’s what saints and prophets always do. They were dreamers, seeing beyond the present to God’s great dream for all the earth, which Jesus, the greatest of all dreamers, called the Kingdom of God.
All Saints Day - The Great Saints of the Past
The Best is Yet to Come
Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16
The great saints of the past lived their lives dreaming about the future—God’s future for the whole world, indeed the whole cosmos. We can take courage, hope, and comfort from looking at their example of forward-looking faith.
Today we celebrate with much of the Christian world; All Saints Day. The Church observes feast days for many of the saints of the past, but as the centuries wore on there became too many to fit into one calendar year. So on November 1st each year we gather them together and celebrate them all at once.
And it occurs to me how ironic it is that while we look back to remember and honor these giants along our path, which is appropriate, they lived their lives looking forward to our time, and beyond. Because that’s what saints and prophets always do. They were dreamers, seeing beyond the present to God’s great dream for all the earth, which Jesus, the greatest of all dreamers, called the Kingdom of God.