The Best is Yet to Come

Enjoy this message from Pastor Tyler Schoenberger called "The Best is Yet to Come" on Sunday, September 13, 2026 at Reach Church in Bear, Delaware!

Time is one of the most powerful forces in human experience, and Ecclesiastes 3 does not let us look away from that reality. The famous passage about seasons of life is not simply a comforting poem about change. It is a sobering confrontation with the fact that we are powerless before time. Seasons come and go. Time gives, and time takes away. No amount of wealth, intention, or effort can stop the tide. Ecclesiastes 3:11 adds another layer to this tension, noting that God has placed eternity in the human heart, yet we cannot fully understand what He has done from beginning to end. We are time-bound creatures with an eternal ache, longing for something that feels just out of reach.

The natural response to this tension is to seize the day. Be present. Soak in the moments. Put the phone down and don't blink. And there is genuine wisdom in that. But it is ultimately a band-aid. No matter how deeply we savor a moment, we will still blink. The kids will still grow up. The seasons will still change. In fact, the pressure to make the most of every moment can cause us to grieve what we are about to lose even while we are still in it, suffocating our own enjoyment in the process.

Everything changes when we see time through the lens of eternity. In the fullness of time, God stepped into time Himself, subjecting Himself to the very thing that burdens us, because He loved us and wanted to set us free from time's grip. For those in Christ, the moments we never want to end are not just fleeting glimpses of something we will lose. They are tastes of eternity breaking into the present. We do not have to hold on with white knuckles or squeeze every moment dry out of fear. We can receive each moment as a gift from God, a preview of something far greater. No matter how hard life gets or how good life gets, the same truth applies: the best is yet to come.