Tag: lose

25.c. “My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.”

 

2 Corinthians 4:16  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

 Psalms 73:26    My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 

 Isaiah 40:29    He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

 Psalms 119:81   My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.

 Psalms 27:13    I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!

 Job 19:26-27   And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,  whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

 Isaiah 40:31    but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

 Psalms 119:71    It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.

 Psalms 119:67    Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

 Psalms 73:24    You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.

Having hope and faith in God, and trusting in, relying on, and clinging to Jesus Christ, opens our heart, mind, and soul to eternity.  It is not as though we understand it but we are certain of it.  We know without a shadow of a doubt that we will be raised from death to life and forever be with Him in His glory.  In this understanding, we can rejoice through our flesh is fading away.  Can you imagine what it will be like to be in the presence of God and see Him face to face?  Standing in the presence of the creator of all there is, the One who knows all of your past and future thoughts and intents, the One who sent His Son to die for you and to redeem you, the one who forgave you of all your sins and has separated them as far as the east is from the west, the One who has taken your blood-red sin-stained soul and washed it white as snow, the One who loved you and made know the mystery of salvation, the One who will raise you up and forevermore you will be with Him in eternity.  

We ought to live in light of this and humbly and obediently doing that which honors and glorifies Him alone.

Our Time

John 7:6  Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.

Ecclesiastes 3:1     For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;  a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;  a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;  a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;  a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;  a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.  What gain has the worker from his toil?  I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.  He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;  also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.  I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

This scripture is written to teach the unsatisfying nature of worldly pleasures and attainments unless God rules the heart and life. The great lesson is “that man’s true wisdom lies in fearing God and looking forward to the judgment.” Do you see how it is describing the different seasons and facets of life. Though there are good things in life, the bad things can’t be escaped. Yet it reminds us of the  of the relentless of life and shows us the need to take full advantage of the time God has given us. Though God has given man a longing for and awareness of eternity, God has not revealed very much about His eternal work. This keeps the yearning for eternity alive in the heart of man as a yet-to-be-fulfilled longing.  We have an awareness but limited understanding, a longing to know but never quite able to grasp.  Our time this side of eternity sometimes does not seem to have purpose.  In reality our purpose is to live this side of eternity with the single purpose of humbly serving, honoring, following and obeying God.  Live happens, don’t let it happen outside of this purpose serving Him with your whole heart, mind and soul.