Emphasis Preaching Journal

An early explorer in the Amazon valley felt swallowed up in endless forest, far from the ocean that could carry him home. However, one day he was surprised to notice a slight rise and fall of the water level in a small creek. Although he stood nearly 600 miles from the Atlantic, yet even here the pulse of the ocean was felt. So it is, Paul writes, with those in Christ. We are promised much that is yet distant, but for now we have been given the Holy Spirit. That indwelling Presence within us is evidence that what may seem yet far away is real, and that we indeed will reach it someday.