Is anything in this life, as good as it could be?

Everything we enjoy has a culminating point, and we live for these culminating points.

• You buy groceries to prepare and serve a meal, but the culminating point is when you eat it together with loved ones. No matter how great the meal or the pleasure of the occasion, however, you always know that things could somehow be better.
• You live for that rare moment when you hit the ball (baseball, tennis ball, golf ball, etc.) in that “sweet spot” and send it flying. You’ll glad- ly swing a million times in anticipation of this one incredible sensa- tion. Still, you know you could hit better, farther, faster.
• You reach a point in a conversation when you sense you are really communicating with someone you truly value. You feel the joy of a deep and meaningful relationship with another human being for what it is. Yet, what you have together is not quite as good as it could be.
• We pursue the reading of books or the watching of movies, enjoying whatever plot developments and twists there may be, all in anticipa- tion of an exciting climax. This is often the very experience for which we invest ourselves! But after the climactic conclusion, what then?

In this fallen world that is so corrupted by sin (ours as well as everyone else’s) and where we are limited by our weak flesh, we are keenly aware life’s limitations. Even the "culminating points" in life leave something to be desired. This is why we are happy just to get a little taste of perfection.

But perfection is coming:

“For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. And not only this, but also we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body”     Romans 8:22-23

Nothing in this world is as good as it could be. But the ideal we do not see here, will eventually be fulfilled in us at Christ’s return, Therefore, I will close with Paul’s words from 8:25, “But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.”