Eternal and In His Image

The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is His faithfulness;
His mercies begin afresh each morning.

~ Lamentations 3:22-23 ~

We have in this scripture a reminder that God’s love is never ending. We need to think about this. Something that never ends is eternal. God is eternal. We, who have accepted the gift that He gave us when His Son died for our sins also became eternal. Well, I will backtrack a bit to say that all human souls are eternal. They have been created eternal and in His image to fellowship with God. The important thing about this is to know, to really know, and embrace, the difference in the types of eternity where we will be invited to spend forever.

For those of us who have heard God’s invitation it will be a place of joy forever being loved by God and worshiping Him. We invite Jesus to be Lord of our lives, and we are in. We receive help from God who is never further away than the breath we breathe. Our God is a triune God, and everything we need to live the life we were created to live, and when we walk down the last few feet of the path set before us we join Him. This happens not because of some power of ours that means that we qualify. That could never be.

We are given it because of the love that God has for us in spite of  our shortcomings and misdeeds. The simple fact is that it is an agape love that is freely given. In addition we are the benefit of  intercession on our behalf and the fact that we are a temple where the Holy Spirit indwells and gives us strength. How wonderful is that?

The scripture tells us that His mercies never cease, and He is aware of how helpless we can be. He exercises faithfulness, not just faithfulness but great faithfulness.  And the mercies we receive do not get diminished as the days go by and not due to our failures; in fact they come to us afresh every morning jar filled, cup running over nothing lessened or running low.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the eternal characteristic that You gave us when You created us. Thank You, for guiding me and leading me to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Because of these gifts I KNOW where I am going and with Whom I will be spending eternity. Thank you, Lord.
Amen.

Written by
            Corinne Mustafa

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