Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The good news

The living God loves failures. We all fail in the light of the perfect law of God. If we can all be honest for a moment we'd admit that God is perfect and we are not.
Romans 8:3-4 says " For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin; He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Jesus understood our dilema of being unable to rise up to the supreme morality of Himself so He empathized with us by placing Himself in the same weak flesh we are surrounded by and condemned sin in His flesh. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him because by His stripes we are healed.
The good news is that God will redeem His creation and He is adamant about us, His creation, being in His presence for eternity where all the former things will have passed. Revelation 22:1-5 describes heaven as the Apostle John is shown " And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever