According to scripture, the best things are yet to come. God promises salvation though faith in Christ Jesus and the hope of eternal fellowship with Him in heaven.

• Paul’s joy produced a righteous discontentment: Paul was unsatisfied with where he was spiritually but Paul was patient in his discontentment
• Paul appreciated the past but didn’t dwell in it: We can’t grow in our faith if we only focus on what has happened to us in the past.
• Paul kept his eye on the prize; pressing onward with everything he had: We have a calling from God and we must preserver, keeping focused solely on Christ.

(Verses cited: Revelation 21:23-24, Revelation 21:21, Matthew 16:26, Philippians 4:11, 2 Peter 3:18, Matthew 5:6, Romans 7, Philippians 1:6, Philippians 2:12, Genesis 50:20, Revelation 11:5)