The Best
“Beside our doors are all choice fruits.” Canticles 7:13
Suppose you are hosting a special guest, for whom you have saved a special drink. Perhaps your guest doesn’t know how much you favor them and feels left out when you distribute lesser beverages to others first. But when you bring out that choice bottle, you may assure them of your favor by saying something like, “For you, only the best.”
We are so prone to feel left out. But in Christ that is rubbish. In him we are never left out. He knows what he has for us and he just wants us to be convinced that he is as good to us as he says he is. To feel left out by God is, in the end, a matter of unbelief. Faith sings a different tune: Whatever my Lord brings me, it will be the best of the best.
Why does he give us the best things? He gives us the best to make us the best, the very best us. All that he gives, he gives to make us grow. Isn’t that his great work in our lives, to make us like him? Dear Christian, know that the things in your life are there by God’s perfect design for you. They are the choice things of his love.