The Holy One calls to me this morning. It's been a long time since I had the ability to journal about our quiet but profound early morning meetings. The battle has been raging and I had a sacred duty to perform and a position to maintain that took every ounce of strength I could find and then yield, to His ruling authority.
The last leg of the journey with my earthly husband was the hardest for reasons beyond just having to watch the cancer destroy his physical body. The human created in the Glorious Image of our God is not wired to handle death. The issues of such finality over an "eternal being" are just not ones we can process without the greatest conflict in our soul.
Physical death and the termination of life here on earth, as we know it, is where the rubber meets the road as a believer in the Life, Death and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. Past all the thoughts of right, wrong, good and bad, lies the core Truth about our Sovereign God: God designed His beloved Creation to live eternally in blessed unity and peace with Himself.
In the Garden of Eden stood two trees among the many. The two trees represented the choice for man's "free will" to be fully exercised and his choice to be honored. The choice was there: the tree of life or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; The one whose fruit insured eternal life and the one whose fruit provided the death of the soul. Man was warned and then left with the choice, and we are painfully aware of the rest of that part of the story.
But God......had a plan.....To redeem his Beloved and bring man back into the eternal relationship between the Creator and His Creation. His plan was daring and unique: To become like His created in flesh form and then in a deep and personal way, give each one of us the ability and responsibility to personally choose a relationship with our Creator God.
The choice was made by Adam and Eve that caused the fall of all, but the choice to be restored to our Creator God is given and made by each one of us personally and individually. I cannot make that decision and choice for any one else nor can anyone else make that decision and choice for me. In the final day, there will be no blame shifting or finger pointing to anyone else, not even the original pair in the garden.
Jesus came. God in flesh form came to pay the price on every head since Adam and Eve. Romans 3:23 and Romans 5:12. The wages of sin is death, eternal separation from the Source of all life, and the death of the soul.
The choice and decision to come to God on His terms stands before each life. God sent His Son, Jesus, and His Son, Jesus died for the sin that caused the original fall and led to the separation between the Creator and each one of us.
The Cross was the place chosen by our God God, to pour out all His wrath and judgment for and against the rebellion and disregard of the governing order of His Creation. Jesus, the Son of God, the Chosen Sacrifice, went willingly to the Cross. He was Crucified for you and for me.
As it so happened on that historic day in the history of man, Jesus was crucified between two thieves.
Two people both guilty of similar offenses, two people who, on that day faced, the same fate for their offenses. Two people who, in that eleventh hour of their temporal lives were presented with a sobering choice affecting their eternity. Only in the person of the human does the devil have a vessel to use to challenge God's Rule. Only in the heart and mind of the creature God created in His own image is there an opportunity to deny, reject, or ignore His Sovereignty and love.
The account in scripture of that day presents two different people with the same fate and the same ability choose their eternal destination. The one "thief "hurled insults and mocked and refused to grasp the significance of the drama he was a part of.
But the other "thief" because of his reaction and hope that Jesus was who He claimed to be, became for us, the symbol of an 11th hour salvation experience. This was recorded for all of us to see and understand the majestic Truth of God's abounding love and mercy for each and every one of us "sinners".
Jesus is and always has been Savior, even in his darkest hour on Earth. The thief hanging next to Him is a symbol of each one of us who cries out to be "remembered" as we face the cross over from this life to what lies beyond our sight and senses.
Both men represent a reaction to the Holy One. Some reject but then some find their hope in His love. It is the evidence of God's amazing love that Jesus takes the smallest surrender and gives back the greatest reward, which is the salvation of our souls. "Today, you will be with Me in Paradise."
For my husband, as for each one of us, the price has been paid and all we have to do is accept the One who paid it. Jesus said, "It is finished". Eternal death has been overruled. The way now stands open, back into relationship with our Creator God. The choice is yours. The question to be answered by each one of us is, "Where will you spend eternity?"
The Holy Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
The last leg of the journey with my earthly husband was the hardest for reasons beyond just having to watch the cancer destroy his physical body. The human created in the Glorious Image of our God is not wired to handle death. The issues of such finality over an "eternal being" are just not ones we can process without the greatest conflict in our soul.
Physical death and the termination of life here on earth, as we know it, is where the rubber meets the road as a believer in the Life, Death and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus. Past all the thoughts of right, wrong, good and bad, lies the core Truth about our Sovereign God: God designed His beloved Creation to live eternally in blessed unity and peace with Himself.
In the Garden of Eden stood two trees among the many. The two trees represented the choice for man's "free will" to be fully exercised and his choice to be honored. The choice was there: the tree of life or the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; The one whose fruit insured eternal life and the one whose fruit provided the death of the soul. Man was warned and then left with the choice, and we are painfully aware of the rest of that part of the story.
But God......had a plan.....To redeem his Beloved and bring man back into the eternal relationship between the Creator and His Creation. His plan was daring and unique: To become like His created in flesh form and then in a deep and personal way, give each one of us the ability and responsibility to personally choose a relationship with our Creator God.
The choice was made by Adam and Eve that caused the fall of all, but the choice to be restored to our Creator God is given and made by each one of us personally and individually. I cannot make that decision and choice for any one else nor can anyone else make that decision and choice for me. In the final day, there will be no blame shifting or finger pointing to anyone else, not even the original pair in the garden.
Jesus came. God in flesh form came to pay the price on every head since Adam and Eve. Romans 3:23 and Romans 5:12. The wages of sin is death, eternal separation from the Source of all life, and the death of the soul.
The choice and decision to come to God on His terms stands before each life. God sent His Son, Jesus, and His Son, Jesus died for the sin that caused the original fall and led to the separation between the Creator and each one of us.
The Cross was the place chosen by our God God, to pour out all His wrath and judgment for and against the rebellion and disregard of the governing order of His Creation. Jesus, the Son of God, the Chosen Sacrifice, went willingly to the Cross. He was Crucified for you and for me.
As it so happened on that historic day in the history of man, Jesus was crucified between two thieves.
Two people both guilty of similar offenses, two people who, on that day faced, the same fate for their offenses. Two people who, in that eleventh hour of their temporal lives were presented with a sobering choice affecting their eternity. Only in the person of the human does the devil have a vessel to use to challenge God's Rule. Only in the heart and mind of the creature God created in His own image is there an opportunity to deny, reject, or ignore His Sovereignty and love.
The account in scripture of that day presents two different people with the same fate and the same ability choose their eternal destination. The one "thief "hurled insults and mocked and refused to grasp the significance of the drama he was a part of.
But the other "thief" because of his reaction and hope that Jesus was who He claimed to be, became for us, the symbol of an 11th hour salvation experience. This was recorded for all of us to see and understand the majestic Truth of God's abounding love and mercy for each and every one of us "sinners".
Jesus is and always has been Savior, even in his darkest hour on Earth. The thief hanging next to Him is a symbol of each one of us who cries out to be "remembered" as we face the cross over from this life to what lies beyond our sight and senses.
Both men represent a reaction to the Holy One. Some reject but then some find their hope in His love. It is the evidence of God's amazing love that Jesus takes the smallest surrender and gives back the greatest reward, which is the salvation of our souls. "Today, you will be with Me in Paradise."
For my husband, as for each one of us, the price has been paid and all we have to do is accept the One who paid it. Jesus said, "It is finished". Eternal death has been overruled. The way now stands open, back into relationship with our Creator God. The choice is yours. The question to be answered by each one of us is, "Where will you spend eternity?"
The Holy Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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