Saturday, January 1

The work of Christ and the world-to-come

Christ has rendered perfect obedience to God in every area of life and has won for his people an everlasting inheritance in the world-to-come. Already we are citizens of that kingdom and from the depths of our heart look forward to the day when the new heavens and the new earth will be revealed. In so doing we acknowledge that our share in the world-to-come rests solely on the work of Christ.

— David VanDrunen
Living in God's Two Kingdoms
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2010), 204