"However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there. ― John of the Cross"
In short, God loves us all so much that He came to earth to live as a sinless human (Hebrews 4:15) just so He could die and shed His Precious blood, thereby paying the death penalty for us all that we ourselves earn because of our sins (John 1:29). He did that just to make it possible for all of mankind to have the opportunity to come to experience the Joy of knowing Him and to live in His Presence always and forever. Three days after He was maliciously murdered and buried He was raised back to life (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) and was later transported back to heaven as a divine human man where He to this day remains as our Great High Priest (Hebrews 8:1) and intervenes for us daily (Romans 8:34, 1 John 2:1). One day in the future He will return to this planet to rule over it as King of Kings (Revelation 14:14, 19:16)
No matter what we have ever thought or done, or will think or do, He is always waiting for us to look to Him and accept His sacrifice of Love for us all. There’s a good chance that our Loving Creator has led you to this web site without you even realizing He did so. Look to Him now to fill the emptiness you may feel with more Real Love than you know is possible.
I pray that you will find the resources in these pages and those linked to from other websites helpful to you as you strive to learn more about God’s Great Love for you and for all the others He is drawing to Himself via this website.
Please pray for me and for this website
“Mortals, born of woman,
are of few days and full of trouble.
They spring up like flowers and wither away;
like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.”
“ If someone dies, will they live again?
All the days of my hard service
I will wait for my renewal to come.”
Job 14:1-2, 14 (NIV)
Today’s complete text is Job 14:1-14.
Job knew he was a good man. Not sinless, but righteous. Why, then, had he lost everything? And why did God choose man to “pick on” when man’s life is so short? Couldn’t God just leave man alone?
“A person’s days are determined;
you have decreed the number of his months
and have set limits he cannot exceed.
So look away from him and let him alone,
till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.” (vs. 5-6)
There are some passages in the Old Testament that speak to everlasting life with the Savior, like Daniel 12:2: “Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”
But Job didn’t have access to those words. He had only his relationship with God, and the courage to speak to his Maker freely, and question, and wonder if his sins were the cause of his suffering, or if the rain truly fell on the just and unjust alike.
He’d get answers soon enough. In the meantime, between hope and despair, Job must have remembered how God felt about him, that God’s ways are not ours, but that in His perfect wisdom and love, God had not forgotten his servant.
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