Hebrews 11:39-40
These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
All the Old Testament saints were parts of God's Plan of the Ages. But they weren't the whole picture, just a part of it. We also are parts of the whole, and only with all of us together can we see how glorious God's Plan is for us. We still don't have the complete picture, but like a puzzle, the pieces that are in place are showing how the rest of the pieces will look; and God has given us that picture, in His prophets, the teachings of Jesus, and in the Epistles and Revelation. I've read the "end of the story" and I can see enough of the picture to fill in a lot of the pieces not accomplished yet.
Father, dear, help us to to be Your hands, Your feet and Your voice, to further along Your Plan, to do, to say, to be where You would have us be, do and say. May Your workers toil in Your fields to reap Your crop, Your fruits of Righteousness and find all Your lost sheep, to carry them into the safety of Your fold. And may Your will be done on this Earth, the same as it is done in Heaven.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
