GOD’S WORD FOR FEBRUARY 13

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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WANTED:  ETERNAL WORSHIPERS

Isaiah 35:10

“And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:  they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

D.L. Moody

Joseph Parker of London, a nineteenth century preacher, uttered something I thought was splendid in regard to the thirty-fifth of Isaiah, where it says in verse ten, “Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”  Take up an old dictionary, he said, and once in a while, you will come across a word marked “obsolete.”  The time is coming, he said, when those two words, “Sorrow” and “sighing” shall be obsolete.   Sighing and sorrow shall flee away, to be no more.  Thank God for the outlook!!!

ERWIN LUTZER

Yes, that time is coming!  When God restores creation, some things will be no  more;  indeed, even death will be gone forever. 

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more.” (Revelation 21:4).

The hearse will have taken its last journey.  There may be some vocations that will continue in heaven, but being an undertaker will not be one of them.

In heaven, we will see things as God sees them, and so our tears will be wiped away.  We will say, “Father, on earth there was much we could not understand.  Now that we see Your purposes from Your eternal perspective, we praise and bless Your Holy Name.”  Weeping is gone forever.

Imagine it!  We will be abiding in the glory of God, talking face to face with Him as one speaks with a friend. We will say, as Philip did, “Show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied.” (John 14:8).    That request will be fully answered.  We shall BEHOLD THE FATHER and be satisfied.

A new home!   A new city!    A new occupation – worshiping the Father and enjoying Him forever.

PRAYER

Father, all that I am, all that I have, and ever hope to be is Yours forever and ever.

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Psalm 37:6, 18, 29, 34

He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,

And your justice as the noonday.

The LORD knows the days of the upright,

And their inheritance shall be forever.

The righteous shall inherit the land,

And dwell in it forever.

Wait on the LORD,

And keep His way,

And He shall exalt you to inherit the land;

When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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Psalm 116:15

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

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Titus 1:2

    “In the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time.”

John 17:3

    “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, who you have sent.”

1 John 5:11-12

    “And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

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Rev. 2:7

He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

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Rev 2:17

 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it.

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Rev. 2:26 And he that overcomes,  and keeps my works to the end, to him will I give power over the nations.

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