Time is Winding Down; Eternity is Now!

Two days and we will see the end of 2009! Already I am hearing from other people who share my sentinment that this was a year of many challenges, and they have expectancy that 2010 will be better. I believe that, I believe that this past year has been a year of preparation of the heart, to know the kinds of things to focus on – to value – yes to even cherish. Time is indeed winding down as we know it – and for those who can receive it – we are stepping into eternity – casting off the temporal and reaching for the eternal!

I’m so glad that God doesn’t concentrate on the mistakes and failures we have on a daily basis, but looks at the whole life – our real heart, and casts judgement on that…

14Someone says: “Build, build! Make a road!
Clear the way, remove the rocks
from the road my people will travel.”

15-21A Message from the high and towering God,
who lives in Eternity,
whose name is Holy:
“I live in the high and holy places,
but also with the low-spirited, the spirit-crushed,
And what I do is put new spirit in them,
get them up and on their feet again.
For I’m not going to haul people into court endlessly,
I’m not going to be angry forever.
Otherwise, people would lose heart.
These souls I created would tire out and give up.
I was angry, good and angry, because of Israel’s sins.
I struck him hard and turned away in anger,
while he kept at his stubborn, willful ways.
When I looked again and saw what he was doing,
I decided to heal him, lead him, and comfort him,
creating a new language of praise for the mourners.
Peace to the far-off, peace to the near-at-hand,” says God— “and yes, I will heal them.Isaiah 57:14-20(MSG)

The mercy of God who forgives, who heals, who comforts, and who not only do all that, He will also give us a new language of praise! This is the God I know. This is the God I serve! This is the God who helps me face tomorrow- for tomorow is sealed for the believer – eternity is in God’s Hands – all of our tomorrows are sealed -and in this we can hope – I would even daresay we can know – that indeed 2010 will be better, for God is already there!

Kairos,
Maria