I’m a drool-wearing Gram! My sleeves and jeans absorb it quite courageously. It’s flung from here to there; walking in it is highly probable. For the most part, it’s not mine! When the grandson’s 2-year-old molars decided to irrupt, they came in with a vengeance producing slobber, fever, snot and crankiness.

I have found it to be true that in serving others, we sometimes get drooled on; We can be misunderstood, taken advantage of, and mistreated in countless ways. The person we serve may never be grateful for the service rendered to them. Certainly, serving is not what you call glamorous, not necessarily exciting or attractive, buts it’s the job we are called to do.

“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:”

1 Peter 4:10, ESV

Jesus didn’t seek out a glamourous life when He came to this earth. He came to wash his disciple’s feet (John 13:1-17), and there wasn’t anything glamorous about stinky feet washing! He came to heal sick people (Matthew 8:14-17); a leper was far from glamorous (Matthew 8:1-3; Mark 1:40-42); sickness in general is not attractive. But Jesus came to serve humanity and the greatest service was being the sacrificial Lamb for the sins of the world.

“For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 20:28, NLT

“…For I am among you as one who serves.”

Luke 22:27

Jesus came to serve, and He served humanity all the way to the cross experiencing the hell we deserved. And those who trust in Him as their Savior from sin will receive a captivating inheritance unlike this world has ever known. Heaven will be glamorous and exhilarating. In his book, Things Unseen, Mark Buchanan paints a picture with these words:

“Our yearning for home is once and for all fulfilled. The ahh! Of deep satisfaction and the aha! Of delighted surprise meet, and they kiss.”

That’s what I call glamorous and exhilarating!

Joni Eareckson Tada has shared,

“I . . . will one day have a new body . . . clothed in righteousness—powerful and dazzling . . .”

Glamorous! Exhilarating!

Our home in heaven will be glamorous and exhilarating; our lives will be full of unimaginable beauty. A heavenly reunion with radiant faces of those who have been mesmerized by the face of our Savior, King! We can never imagine anything greater or more glamorous than being in the very presence of our Lord!

What’s holding you back from securing a glamorous and exhilarating future?