17 “So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain.And Jerusalem shall be holy,and strangers shall never again pass through it. 18 “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine,and the hills shall flow with milk,and all the stream beds of Judahs hall flow with water;and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim. 19 “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness,for the violence done to the people of Judah,because they have shed innocent blood in their land.20 But Judah shall be inhabited forever,and Jerusalem to all generations.21 I will avenge their blood,blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
There is hope for those who trust in God!!! By Christ's death evil has been defeated, it has no hold on us. And on the day the Lord returns, we will not longer sin or suffer! All temptations will be blotted out. And we will live with Him for eternity!!! The Lord goes before us in ALL we do. We need to trust this as we live each day, preach the gospel, and obey. There is no one greater than our God!
As I was reading Stott's "The Cross of Christ" I came across this quote by P.T. Forsyth that spoke about God satisfying His own judgement. It made me more in awe of how Awesome and Marvelous Our God is!
"God dying for man, I am not afraid of that phrase; I cannot do without it. God dying for men; and for such men - hostile, malignantly hostile men. Again, because the holiness of God...is meaningless without judgement, the on thing God could not do in the face of human rebellion was nothing. He must either inflict punishment or assume it. And he chose the latter course, as honouring the law while saving the guilty. He took his own judgement."
"Amazing love! How can it be, That thou, my God, should'st die for me?" - Charles Wesley
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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