7435	Forums / Theology Forum / Perseverence	on: May 15, 2007, 09:11:14 PM
There is only one place of refuge, one resting place in this very short life. Our lives are like a vapor , we appear and then we are gone. There is something in us that does not want tarry before Him, in an eternal thought frame of mind. From Gods perspective we are like the new grass in the morning and then by the evening we wither and die. The only real lasting part of our existence is resting in Him. Resting in Him in the great assembly, and resting in Him as our only hope moment by moment. Because of the shortness of life compared to eternity it makes each act of worship very important. We live before the Father, Son , and Holy Spirit, and when we are filled with Gods word that divine revelation is not the essence of what we glory in but it is what is in the word , the Persons who speak to us personally. The word leads us to the Persons. And when we worship, we are going before our Father who is speaking to us through His word. Our value is in this life is that time spent listening to the Persons of the Trinity through that revelation. Because of our short lives we experience a small bit of eternity in His resting place. And even tho we are made in the image of God, yet we are only dust, so that we are dependent on His word, who returns us to dust by His command. If we can flame that eternal perspective, then our thinking would be more realistic about what is important in this life. We only see through a glass darkly, yet in His speaking to us, we are led out of our own desires to fix on Him so that we can see that eternity is really all there is. Finiteness is what makes independent thinking fools, who are like beast. But when we hear from Him even His discipline will be our resting place.