It is no longer a question of God: God IS – and we all know it. Our question and quest for knowledge and power over our own lives and circumstances only asks: will I bow down to the eternal God?

We have knowledge, near complete and inexhaustible. We have Bibles we refuse to read and evidence to which we turn our backs.

God created. God judges. God punishes. God redeems. God forgives. God loves.

And God has sent a Savior and Redeemer to the world in the Person of Christ Jesus.

The decision is in the heart and response of each created being – each man; each woman.

• Will you bow down to God the Father, Eternal Creator of all the world and all mankind?
• Will you receive the love and sacrifice of God the Son in Christ Jesus; who IS and who was and who will return to judge your soul?
• Will you open your heart of stone to God the Holy Spirit, turning from your sin and following the love of Christ’s example?

God has put eternity in your heart. The world knows eternity and God, yet cannot accept the limits of each breath and heartbeat to sustain our soul, our mind, our failing flesh and crumbling bones.

Loved ones

gasp for breath,

wait for the strength

of another heartbeat,

search faulty thoughts for

what was once recalled,

walk tenderly on bones

once thought sturdy

and measure days

till the grave

by mem’ries

and dreams of our past.

LORD GOD,

will I finally remember

eternity of my soul,

saved for your love

by your love,

saved from just punishment

for my many sins,

by your own Sacrifice

of Christ Jesus –

will I remember

the eternity you have placed

in my heart

before the end of the days

you have created

for this failing flesh?

God test us, that we may see that the end of our earthly days will be no different than animals, that in the end our ashes return to ashes and our dust to dust.

Yet only man has a soul made in the Image of God!

And only Christ Jesus lived as a sinless man in the Image of the sinless God of eternity.

By the sacrifice of Jesus only – by the blood of Christ only – by the love and grace of God only do we yet have the choice for repentance from our sins and life eternal for our soul – life eternal without blame in the Presence of the love of God our heavenly Father; Christ Jesus who loved us even to the death and IS eternal for us in the resurrection; of the Holy Spirit who would even now break through the hardness of our heart toward the loving Father and bring our prodigal soul home forever.

You may ask in these passing days of passing seasons, ‘Where have I heard that He has put eternity in my heart?’ How do I know that my soul lives life once and will sleep until the judgment?

It is written in God’s Holy Bible. Have you read it?

Do you read (in these passing seasons of your flesh) God’s intention and purpose for your remaining measured days?

Ecclesiastes 3

NKJV

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born,
And a time to die…

9 What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? 10 I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied.

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

12 I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, 13 and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.

14 I know that whatever God does,
It shall be forever.
Nothing can be added to it,
And nothing taken from it.
God does it, that men should fear before Him.
15 That which is has already been,
And what is to be has already been;
And God requires an account of what is past…

17 I said in my heart,

“God shall judge the righteous and the wicked,
For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

18 I said in my heart, “Concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are like animals.” 19 For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

20 All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. 21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

Christ Jesus said:

I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

John 12:46

Do you yet live in the darkness of your sin? Or does your soul embrace the light of life in Christ Jesus?

 

To everything there is a season

A time to every purpose under heaven.

A time for repentance

Or a time of judgment,

A time of sin

Or a time of grace,

A time of darkness eternal

Or a time of light.

I pray for your heart and soul to embrace the love and grace of Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

Amen.