Category: Quote of the Day

The right side is the bright side ultimately but not always immediately. We are not called to be pulpit Pollyannas wearing rose-colored glasses and painting the clouds with sunshine. Paul’s contemporaries may have explained his dark picture of the last days by saying, “He is just a bilious old bachelor in a Roman jail, and everything looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.” Someone may have reminded him that one can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but Paul was not in the fly-catching business, anyway.

There is a good old song about it, but actually we have no business standing on Jordan’s stormy banks, casting a wishful eye toward Canaan’s fair and happy land where our possessions lie. Canaan is not heaven and we do not have to go through a graveyard to get there. It is the land of a victorious Christian life, open to all who will follow the Joshua of their salvation and possess their possessions in Christ. We can cross over Jordan now and live in the promised land long before we get to heaven.