Last night's post...Day #3

God gave us this yesterday...

...Isn't our God good? Hasn't he made all things beautiful and good in their own season?

I was listening to a song yesterday on the way home from work. It was talking about how God loves us so much that he made us with the capability to have more than all of this (meaning this life here on earth). As I drove I watched the sunset in awe... so distracted by the glory that I finally had to pull over and just stand in awe of my Jesus! He made this... this glorious, beautiful thing and he made us for more than this? Seriously? 

Whoa... 

Heaven, then, is going to be all of this - His pure glory...

...but on an unlimited scale.

And we, the believers, get to see it!

And not just see it, but someday we get to live in it. With it. With God. 

Thoughts on a song...

Sometimes I write.
I definitely am not a writer, but sometimes my thoughts just get themselves through my blood, down my arm, and out of my fingertips. And onto a page...

  This is a meditation taken from my green notebook about the song "By Your Side" by House of Heroes. 

These two lines bring tears to my eyes.

"When you see the face of our Maker."

What a promise...
When, not if.
This means I will see the face of God. It will happen. (Psalm 17:15, 27:8)
This means I won't get lost in death's passage.
This means he will not let me slip through his hands. (John 10:27-29)
I'm his child, he cares about me... he knows me intimately... everything about me.... (Psalm 139)
So then, the promise is a "when" and not an "if". 

"You don't have to be ashamed,

he knows the promises we made."

He forgives.
Another sweet promise. (Titus 1:3)
A gift. (Romans 6:23)
He is the father of the prodigal, running to us when we turn our feet and hearts homeward... (Luke 15)
He tosses our sins as far as the east is from the west. They are pieces of a broken vessel that he tramples underfoot as he runs...crushing them until they are dust. (Colossians 1:13-14, I John 1:9)
They cannot be gathered again. 
They are forgotten, completely and utterly erased. 
No shame found here.
Death cannot hold fear, shame, doubt, or regrets over me. I'm forgiven.
Death is just one more step closer to home. 
Closer to HIM.
For he is real life. (Revelation 22:12, 16-17)