Do Not Despair, Everything Has a Purpose

When we know that God allowed everything in our lives, even the difficult things, for our training we can view them differently. I am convinced that everything we learn in this life will serve us in the Millennium when we rule with Christ. I cannot believe all we go through here is only for here. By the time we get to the end of our life we just go home and start all over again? NO! I believe what we learn here will serve us well when we rule with Christ. A sort of Spiritual boot camp.

Hebrews 12:11 "12:11 Now all discipline seems painful at the time, not joyful. But later it produces the fruit of peace and righteousness for those trained by it."

Hebrews 12:8 "12:8 But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons."

Philippians 1:6 "1:6 For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus."

1 Samuel 18:5 "On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants."

God works very much the same now and in the next life the way He worked here on this earth. Everything we are trained for is not just for ourselves, but for service, here in this life but also in the Millennium. This is my opinion, if you can prove this wrong then I am interested in your thoughts.

I just can't believe that we go through this life as born again believers only to lose all the training we had here when we pass into the Millennium.

Revelation 20:4 "4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years."

Perhaps the earth will return to its state before the fall. Adam and Eve were given dominion over the earth.

(Genesis 1:28) "And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth” .

When this life is over those who loved Christ will be rewarded with power to rule nations.

(Luke 22:28-30) "You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel .

We will judge the angels:

1 Corinthians 6:2–3
2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

This life is very short, whatever we must endure here is nothing more than boot camp for the best that is yet to come. Do not despair in your trials, keep focused on the lesson and the purpose. That purpose is to ultimately glorify God for all eternity.