“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

That’s what I hear the Spirit whisper to me as I take in what Peter is writing to the exiles.

Peter, though writing to a dispersed people, longs for them to be anything but a depressed, or a disillusioned people. He reminds them of their deliverance in the past, that they’ve been born again to a living hope (1Peter 1:3). And he reassures them of the divine dynamic of their present, that “by God’s power” they are being “guarded through faith” (1Peter 1:5). And that all this is the stuff “into which angels long to look” (1Peter 1:12), the things prophesied by the prophets — the “grace to be yours” (1Peter 1:10).

But wait, there’s more . . .

He reminds them also of their future and of the inheritance that awaits, of “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven” (1Peter 1:4). And, if I’m picking up what’s being laid down, that’s the grace that will be brought.

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

(1Peter 1:13 ESV)

The grace that will be brought . . . That’s what puts the gears in motion this morning.

As much grace as I’ve known, I ain’t seen nothin’ yet! For there is a grace yet to be brought. A gift yet to be received (MSG).

Sure, noodle on the wonders of the cross and the grace bestowed through Christ’s finished work — that where sin abounds, grace does more abound (Rom. 5:20-21). Marvel at the fact of an empty tomb and the grace of resurrection power, an all-sufficient grace that makes available divine power in our weakness so that we’re actually inclined to “boast” of our infirmities (2Cor. 12:9) as we know from experience that our weakness is actually our “superpower”. Yeah, try and wrap your head around the abundant grace we’ve already known. And then, try to envision the grace that will be brought.

The grace that will be brought at the revelation of Jesus Christ. The unmerited favor we’ll know when we are face-to-Face. The undeserved joy, pleasure, delight, and sweetness we’ll experience when faith gives way to sight. The unimaginable grace we’ll experience when (if) we are able to divert our gaze from the glorious face of our Savior and peer over His shoulder to see our inheritance, “imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.” Talk about grace overflowing!

And what else can you say but “Bring it!”

By His grace. For His glory.