“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.” Deuteronomy 10:16-17, 20-21 KJV
How do you describe the colors in a sunset to one who cannot see? How do you describe Handel's Messiah or the laughter of a baby to one who cannot hear? How do you describe the awesome and terrible power of God to one who does not believe? All are impossible!
I was contemplating what we know about heaven, as written in The Bible, and how our finite brains try and wrap themselves around the infinite; again impossible.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV
We try and envision the spiritual with physical limitations; trying to associate the unknown with what we know. Our pitiful efforts to comprehend the incomprehensible; again impossible!
I, in my inadequacy, have determined that all of man's efforts to describe the indescribable is impossible, for He IS more!
He IS more than we can imagine! He IS more than adequate!
He IS more than able!
He IS enough!
And then beyond!
He IS all!
Without Him is nothing!
We live our lives, minute by minute with no thought of Him, until crisis occurs and then we cry, "where are You God?"
Living for ourselves; acquiring stuff; striving for momentary happiness in an evil world; worshiping a god that only gives but does not require.
And He loves us despite our inability to love Him! His mercy and His grace is unfathomable.
He loves us enough to send His Son to die for us; so that we may live with Him!
“In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:2-6 KJV
He IS our afterlife!
He IS our heaven!
He IS our rest!
Without Him anywhere is hell!
He IS our reason for existence!
How do I know?
He said so!
“And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” Exodus 3:14 KJV
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
“I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”
Revelation 1:18 KJV
Do you know Him?
Do you fear Him?
Repent while there is still time!
Even so - MARANATHA!
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