Lam 3:25,26 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Rev 14:12.13 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Jer 29:11-13 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
An expected end. Our expected end is either living and witnessing our Lord's return for us without ever dying, or dying and entering our long rest and letting our works follow us when we are awakened from death's sleep to meet our Lord upon His return for us. This is our expected end, belonging to our Savior forever.
We wait for Him, we seek Him, we hope for Him, we wait patiently, quietly. We keep the commandments of God. We keep the faith of Jesus. We call on the Lord, we pray unto the Lord, we seek Him, we will find Him. We must search for Him will ALL our heart!
Learning of Jesus, surely this is a searching we do with all our hearts.
Mat_7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you
Act_17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us
Our Lord isn't far from any of us, He wants us to seek, to find, to knock, to learn of Him! How is it that our learning of Him is a never ending constant education? Can we ever truly know all there is to know of anyone? Sure, we know a lot about each other. Married couples who have been together fifty years will know most of the ins and outs of each other- but they can never fully know the innermost being of each other. We are in a constant state of learning. Is it any wonder that some people get to a point in a relationship where they can say they are different than when they were married, they've changed? Marriage is an agreement to remain together as the changes occur. Some changes certainly aren't for the better. We change as we grow. Circumstances can change us, the things we go through can change us and we are constantly learning and changing.
Our God is the same --- Heb_13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
And yet we are forever learning of Him because as we interact with each other- fulfilling the second of the greatest commands- to love one another (the last six of the moral laws are all about loving one another) we are learning to love people where they are in their lives. We are learning love. God is love. We will never be able to stop learning to love it is a fluid thing that never stops surrounding us in so many ways. Learning of Him, He wants us to learn of Him, learn of love, His love, His perfect love.
The Lord want us to be His, this is His desire. The Lord wants us to know His peace. His peace that had Him live a life in human flesh, and still cling to His Father. His peace that saw beyond the horror to the everlasting hope.
2Th_2:16,17 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
Being able to see beyond the horror to the hope can truly give us peace. Our world is in a constant state of chaos. Not a single person in this world has a life free of it horrors. The horrors take on different shapes and sizes for all the different situations people find themselves in- rich, poor, young, old, sick, well, heartbroken, content- all these people face horrors in their lives. We must live beyond the horror and for the hope that only our Savior can give us. That hope makes the horrors bearable- if barely sometimes- because that hope offers us heaven. The hope of our Savior returning for us! Come Lord, Jesus, come!
All in the name of our Savior, now and forever!!!!!!! Amen!
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