Eternity

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Good News: No Thing Is Ever Enough Apr 18, 2021 The Christian says, ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such…
Love That Makes The Darkness Tremble Mar 3, 2019 For bravery none compares with our Lord. He never turned His head from danger, not even when hell’s hatred and heaven’s justice appeared against Him.~William Gurnall The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.He makes…
Doxa Mar 1, 2019 I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely…
Eternity in A Song Feb 5, 2019 Earth breaks up, time drops away,In flows heaven, with its new day.~Robert Browning (1812-1889) After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to…
道教耶和华 (Dàojiào Yēhéhuá) The Manifold Reality of G_d Dec 8, 2018 On the nature of God, and whether or not the Prime Mover does anything… When we begin to understand where Aquinas is going with: God is His Own existence or Act of Being; thus, as ‘ipsum…
Timeless Safety in Him Nov 25, 2018 Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.~Thomas Watson Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of…
Death by Incurvatus in Se Aug 23, 2018 Incurvatus in se (Latin for Turned/curved inward on oneself. St. Augustine’s definition of sin.) Sin is, in truth, the hardest of all masters. In its service there is plenty of fair promises, but an utter dearth…
Peace by Bloodshed Aug 3, 2018 I charge you never to give up the old doctrine of the blood of Christ, the complete satisfaction which that atoning blood made for sin, and the impossibility of being saved except by that blood. Let…
Is This Worth It? May 27, 2018 There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.…
Eternity’s Echo in Time Jan 7, 2018 Augustine tells of a vision of seeing a little boy at a beach scooping up the ocean thimbleful by thimbleful and emptying it out on the sand. Then he sees an angel who tells him that…
Eternity: So Much More Real Than Time Sep 29, 2017 Both the statement that our final destination is already settled and the view that it still may be either Heaven or Hell, seem to me to imply the ultimate reality of Time, which I don’t believe…
Breakthroughs Into Eternal Spaces Jun 22, 2017 Just as people do not enter a war in order to enjoy war, but in order to be saved from war, so we do not enter this world in order to enjoy this world, but in…
April Storms Bring Eternal Flowers Apr 30, 2017 What then is God? Of the universe he is the final end; as to election, he is salvation; as to himself, he hath knowledge. What is God? Omnipotent will, virtue of highest benevolence, light eternal, reason…
Eternally Done: The Nature of Our Salvation Feb 17, 2017 So, are you worried about whether G_d has changed His mind about you? Or, are you concerned about the pressing circumstances of life? He hasn’t, and the circumstances (though real) are hardly overwhelming in light of…
Loved from Forever Jul 31, 2016 God is love and God is sovereign. His love disposes him to desire our everlasting welfare, and his sovereignty enables him to secure it. ~ A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) This fool of a writer thought he…
Our Very Large Salvation Jul 24, 2016 Is the living Person now in heavenly glory really the Object of our hearts? For some time after I knew the Savior I used to think of Him as One who had lived and died on…
Loved by A King Apr 18, 2016 Don’t miss this beloved. The air of Heaven is real. The waters of the River of Life are the wettest and freshest and alivest there will ever be. And the most real part will not be…
Could Go Back… But Why? Jan 22, 2016 Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly heart.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Brothers,…
Living Heavenly Minded Jan 6, 2016 Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a divine center, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our…
Without Context, Faith Falters Jan 1, 2016 “Whatever past achievements might bring us honor, whatever past disgraces might make us blush, all have been crucified with Christ and exist no more except in the deep recesses of eternity, where “good is enhanced into…
Forever Now Dec 30, 2015 There is One who is infinite in glory and you will spend an eternity of eternities tracking him down and you will never get your arms even around the foothill of his mountain! ~ Paul Washer…
Salvation’s Context Dec 12, 2015 ON TIME by JOHN MILTONFly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;And glut thy self with what thy womb devours,Which is no more…
Knowing G_d Audaciously Nov 25, 2015 We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.~Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of…
Miracles Out of The Depths of Time Aug 4, 2015 The crosses which we make for ourselves by a restless anxiety as to the future are not crosses which come from God. We show want of faith in him by our false wisdom, wishing to forestall…
Eternity in the Mundane: A Repost on The Importance of Living in The Moment Jul 18, 2015 A glimpse of the next three feet of road is more important and useful than a view of the horizon.~C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He…
Resting in Our New Past in Him Jun 22, 2015 There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) We ourselves…
Aiming for Eternity Mar 9, 2015 As the mother’s womb holds us for nine months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth…. Therefore, look forward…
Faith Requires Disbelief Feb 5, 2015 We need to fearlessly step out and activate His promises. It is intimacy that gives us the grace and strength we need to push through suffering, pain, and inconvenience.~Heidi Baker My son, do not forget my…
Planting for An Astounding Harvest: Participation in The Divinity of G_d Dec 10, 2014 It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,if you say it…
Trying to Build A Home on A Lilypad Dec 7, 2014 Winged time glides on insensibly and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) “Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does…
Forever in The Balance Dec 1, 2014 The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.~ Sarah Dessen When Jesus had spoken these words, He lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son…
Life on A Very Narrow Way Aug 3, 2014 Consecration is the narrow, lonely way to overflowing love. We are not called upon to live long on this planet, but we are called upon to be holy at any and every cost. If obedience costs…
Definitely Not Home Yet Oct 2, 2013 Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a divine center, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our…
True Quality of Life Mar 1, 2013 You are wisdomYou are peaceYou are beautyYou are eternal life.~Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) When Jesus had spoken these words, He lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify…
Already Begun Dec 1, 2012 …What an amazing thought that the pinnacle of God’s plan revolves around RELATIONSHIP. I’ve been contemplating this for a long time and every time I come back to the same conclusion. Galaxies are beautiful, the periodic…
Gentlemen, What Are Your Intentions? Aug 20, 2011 Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, what are your intentions? Jim Lovell: I’d like to go home.— Aboard Apollo 13, orbiting the backside of the Moon. “For does not my house stand so with God? For He has made…