Psalm 79: 8, 9 “Oh, do not remember former iniquities, against us! Let Your tender mercies come speedily to meet us, for we have been brought very low. Help us O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins, for Your name’s sake!”
Dear God,
It is delightful to speak with You, especially today when the sky is glowing with orange and deep pink heralding the promise of warmth after a chilly night. I honour You as the One who makes the perfection of beautiful colours and forms. From John’s description in Revelation, I look forward to the glorious colours blended together in every part of heaven. Thank You not only for all the different colours, but also the visual stimulation which is relayed to our minds and emotions in a way that can impact every part of our body, as we interpret the colours and hues into our emotions. Your created colours as found in nature never impact negatively upon us either, as man made ones can, in certain situations! Please ‘switch us on’ to Your colourful creation, so we can be impacted positively; as You designed.
When I think of think of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden I remember that they had been created perfect and lived in a place that was perfect and alive with colours of every hue; as heaven still is, in which nothing is ever dreary or dying; as it can be on earth. Sadly, we and all Your creation upon earth is in the process of dying, after reaching our maturity. The scriptures make it clear that with sin automatically comes eventual death. This has been the ‘order of things’ since Satan led Adam and Eve into sin; and all mankind, from then on has been drawn toward sin and disobedience to our God. Romans 7: 17 “But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.” V 19 “For the good that I will do, I do not do, but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.”
How You must yearn for the day when You will have finally banished all sin from us, individually and on earth, for ever. During our lifetime, You will forgive the repentant person, and be the power for each one to prepare, so they can be taken to Your heavenly home. Hallelujah, what a Saviour, and what a God!
With our bodies made new, we will have no trouble abiding by Your law, because they reflect Your character and we well be transformed to live in Your love and characteristics; naturally and with delight. Even though we always will have our power of choice, none from earth or the universe, would ever choose to repeat the travesty of Satan’s way: and God would have no purpose in letting sin reign again, because all Satan’s accusations, about God being an unjust tyrant and impossible to follow, will have been forever disproved for the whole universe to see.
Hallelujah, in heaven and the New Earth, no one to tempt us or lead us astray, combined with the fact, within our new body, we will have no propensity toward sin. As with Paul, I thank You God, that Jesus Christ delivers me from this body of death. V 24, 25 “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.”
Amen