2026 Christmas Gift Guide
2026 Christmas Gift Guide
For You This Life Is Either the Best It Will Ever Get or the Worst It Will Ever Get
Longings to Be Fulfilled
For anyone not united to Jesus Christ, this life is the best it will ever get. But for anyone united to Jesus Christ, this life is the worst it will ever get.
We tend to view this life as our one shot at joy. But if you are a Christian, actually, all the pressure’s off. Everything we long to experience in this world, we will—in this world, on this planet, out in the future. The only things we will not experience in the new earth that we may want to here are sin and romance. There’s no more sin, and there’s no more romance because the one whom every romance is ultimately anticipating is there: the Lord Jesus Christ.
Finally Home
Dane Ortlund
In Finally Home, Dane Ortlund ushers readers into the surprising wonders of our final future in the new heavens and the new earth. It provides deep comfort and joy that outweigh all our many heartaches as we journey through this broken world.
But everything else we will have forever: the vacations, the work, the fulfilling work, the friendships and relational joys and love, the scenery of other parts of the world, the travel, the mountains and rivers, the wildlife, the perfect harmony we will enjoy with the wildlife. It is all available to us forever, in an unhurried way, in the new earth.
If you’re not a Christian, then absolutely, you better wring this life dry for all the pleasure that you can. Or, as Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians 15, “Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.” But if you are in Christ, there is no such thing as ultimate disappointment, because everything we ever long to experience, we will.
Dane Ortlund is the author of Finally Home: The Christian Hope of Heaven.
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