GOD' s ETERNAL HEART

“Long before he laid down earth’s foundation, He had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love…long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had his eyes on us, had designs on us for glorious living.”

Paul says,” No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Cor.2:9), he simply means we cannot out dream God. His plans (Jer.29:11), his desire to pursue thousands of ships just to win us back from our transgressions; the truth still lies we can never transcend nor fathom what He has and still storing for us in heaven. As Jesus promised us in his words (John14:2) “I’m going…to prepare a place for you in Heaven”, and in revelation 2:17 where He declares boldly, “There (in heaven) we (his beloveds) shall receive our new name, known only to our Lover, which he shall give to us on a white stone”-It is the man own symbol,-his soul’s picture, in a word-the sign which belongs to him and to no one else. Who can give a man this, his own name? God alone. For no one but God sees what the man is…he shall give us this at the time we are worthy of it.

Stay in God’s holy road-the road less traveled by- with Faith and Hope in your heart for Faith looks back and draws courage; Hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. In your journey do not just bring faith and hope with you but keep close at hand Memory-for it draws you back in the past; thus, give you hope, Imagination-to let desire burning, and Passion-to increase glory. These we must keep close at hand to see the journey to its end. Yes, dragons and nits and the noonday demons lie in wait. But the road is not entirely rough. There are oases along the way. It would be dreadful mistake to assume hat our beloved is only waiting for us at the end of the road. Our communion with him sustains us along our path.

“So long as we imagine that it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about; He is looking for us. And so we can afford to recognize that very often we are not looking for God; far from it, we are in full flight from Him, in high rebellion against Him. And He knows that and has taken it into account. He has followed us into our own darkness; there where we thought finally to escape him, we run straight into his arms. So we do not have to erect a false piety for ourselves, to give us the hope of salvation. Our hope is in his determination to save us, and he will not give in. (Prayer)