Revelation 21: 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.” 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!”

Though filled with the LORD’s joy and assurance of salvation in Christ Jesus our Lord and witness to his great grace and mercy to receive one like me, a sinner, into the light and life of eternal joy; I have been grieved this week for the souls loved ones.

My wife and my children know my witness for Christ Jesus and striving to do what is right in the Lord in my word and my actions, but even my most beloved ones remain far from me and my heart is filled with sorrow and emptied of joy when I am not touched and embraced in the Lord by loved ones.

Family and friends remain far off and out of reach. The Lord is near, yet the promise of no more tears seems far off.

How can the Lord seem near to two beloved: a beloved wife and her husband in the Lord, a nurturing parent and a child so far away, a dear brother or sister?

Will the LORD make a new thing by blessing of His love in the hearts of those we love? God is Creator and His Word is true.

“Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”

Do you, dearly beloved, fear God your Maker? Do you, dear friend, love the Lord your Savior?

Why then do you not remember your vows to the Lord and your covenants with men?

Why do you not remember in your salvation in Christ Jesus his own love for your brother or sister or friend.

Jesus was so personal in his love for all He touched. Why is your love for others not also witness of His love for you? Why would you turn impersonal and cold in your love for the Lord and for others?

 Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.

God IS a Person! You have met him in our Lord Christ Jesus!

The Person of God creates — and He alone will cause the passing of the old and creation of the new.

IF you truly read scripture, you will see how God is grieved over people when they sin and turn away from his love – when they claim Him as theirs, yet will not do what is right in His eyes. The Prophets warn us over and over again of God’s wrath against those who backslide from doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD and men of God have at times put the challenge of righteousness and willful unrighteousness as example before all of consequence of turning against the Living Person of God, our Creator.

Numbers 16:So the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.’ ” “If these men die naturally like all men, or if they are visited by the common fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me. “But if the LORD creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD.” Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up… So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them… And a fire came out from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men…

WHY would you not bow down to your LORD, Creator, Redeemer and Father who loves yet will punish His own children or destroy those who do insist on doing NOT His will, but their own?

Do you love the Lord your God will all your heart and all your mind and all your soul and all your strength?

Why not? (For you do not show even to your own the love of the Father for you and the love of the Son who became the Blood of Sacrifice for your sins.)

Is your witness to the world God’s love for you?

Is your love for your husband, your wife, your child, your parent, your brother, your sister, your neighbor, your friend – is your love for God’s loved one the same as they and you would expect from Jesus (whom you call ‘lord’)?  Even ‘good’ christians who claim the love of Christ Jesus (really, especially christians who say that Jesus is lord) ought to fear any offense to the Person of God, as also shown to God’s chosen.

Acts 5:  3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, why have you let Satan fill your heart? You lied to the Holy Spirit, and you kept some of the money for yourself. 4 The property was yours to sell or not sell, as you wished. And after selling it, the money was also yours to give away. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us but to God!” 5 As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor and died. Everyone who heard about it was terrified.

WHY would you lie to the Holy Spirit in your vow before God?

WHY would you lie about the truth of Christ Jesus by breaking your word before the witness of man?

WHY would you not receive the love of God your Father before you have brought Him to the wrath to destroy your witness and create a repentant prodigal in the heart of another? The LORD our Maker has created.

The LORD our Potter has molded us from clay of sinful flesh. He has kneaded in His own righteousness into us through Christ Jesus.

Has not the Potter the right to break the vessel and shape a soul into something new?

Revelation 21:8  “But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Our Maker and Redeemer will judge! Only those truly repentant and faithful, truly loving the Person of God and His created ones will remain. That is why there will be no more weeping.

Love will be real for me and for you, in the Person of Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.

May it be our personal witness of love for our beloved, in witness to the love of Christ Jesus for His Beloved Church, His bride.

This is my plea to my wife; to my children and brothers and sisters, my friends, my family – IF we are the Lord’s, let the fruit of His love be known in our love for each other.