...God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death, or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:3-4
That part of scripture has to beat any other promise we can find in the bible to hold on to. Once this life is over for the Christian, there will be no more mourning, crying, pain. No more death. He is going to wipe every tear from our eyes.
And it seems unfathomable. Unattainable. Almost unimaginable. And yet there it is. God's promises to us. And perhaps the greatest part of all says that God himself is going to dwell among us and we will be his people.
How can this be? How can this happen?
I can't give you the answers to those two questions. What I do know about it in my limited capacity to think and understand, is that we just have to faith and believe. Only God knows the secrets of those things that are to come. We just have to wait and see.
Is it any wonder why so many people disbelieve? Yesterday my daughter was looking up a relative on Facebook that we had not seen or spoken with in
several years.
It turns out she says she has become agnostic.
How sad is that, that she does not able to put her trust and hope in the God that created her? She will one day stand before a holy God, who will not accept her into his kingdom if she did not accept him before she meets him.
And there are so many many others that will face the same judgement.
It still causes me to wonder "why me, Lord." Why is that I have chosen a path that leads to you, when I could have gone down the one that doesn't, like countless others.
I don't know the answer to that one either. But the one thing I do know, is thank the good Lord, that I did. I am not perfect that is for sure. There is nothing so special in me that made me choose the right path. What is special in my life is God's grace and his ability to forgive me of my sin.
There is a path that leads to destruction. But there is also a path that leads to life. Mathew 7:13-14. Which would we choose? I choose life. How about you?
July 19, 2019 Promise: I have set the Lord always before me: because he is my at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Psalm 16:8
Hi Friends. What a week we have had. Trying to get somewhat settled into a new place. A new land really. One much different from where we came in a lot of ways. It reminds me of the Children of Israel and how they must have felt leaving their home land to go off to the place that God said was "flowing with milk and honey.". Were they apprehensive? Discouraged at times? Did they do like I did the first night I was here, and ask myself just what was I thinking when I took on this move to another state? I am sure all of the above and more. Thankfully, we did not have to trek across a wilderness on foot or the backs of animals. But just like them, God made the approriate provisions and help that we needed. And though I am still wondering about what is still ahead before we can truly call this home, I am settled in my thoughts about what reasons brought us here and know that no matter what, God has my back. Because as usual, he surely does!
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