by Jesse Abel
Psalm 19:13 – If we fully understood the error of our walk in this temporal life, we would not need to be cleansed from those secrets faults and eternity would not matter. Praise God that His Plan for our redemption is founded in His Righteous Son. It is no secret that He is the Sinless Sacrifice for our sinful secret. Hebrews 10:5-10
Good Morning
Some years ago when I was a member of the local fire department we were fighting a blaze in one of the local barns. There were no animals in the barn just a bunch of equipment; tractors and farm machines. I was stationed at first on a water gun and it was my job to knock down large pockets of fire which were normally objects like tractors. One such tractor was fully involved, I aimed the gun and shooting water at 100psi from 30 feet away was like hitting the tractor with a 3”50 shell. (You gunner’s mates of the old navy warships will have a clue). I hit the tractor broad side and it rolled like a free ball on the basketball court as the flames seemed to chase after it.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is reveled from faith to faith; as it is written, the just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:16-17
The statement about the fire and the fireman’s water gun is true, an experience I will never forget. We look at creation with the understanding that God has given to all of us permission to use His creation in ways needed to enjoy, protect or destroy the objects of life. For a simple example; if the conditions were right we could have used that same water to wash the tractor and make it shine for another day. The fire could have kept us warm on a cold day. It takes human faith in God’s creation to fully understand to use creation in all of its capacity.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 Thus there is a time and season for everything under the sun and it is a God given assignment to figure out these labors; which ones bring out temporal living and which ones bring about temporal suffering. However life does not begin and end with just this. What profit has he who labors for this alone… none at all?
God has taken this one major step further, something which you and I cannot do. He has given us time on the planet, a planet in which HE has made EVERYTING beautiful in its time to reveal His Plan and to provide us hope. As you read earlier I hope; Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. Now in verse 11, He has placed eternity in our hearts.
You see whatever God does it is done forever; meaning that His power supersedes the power of creation; the temporal elements of water and fire prove this to us daily.
His power which thee apostles were not ashamed of is that same power we proclaim today; while we perish in our temporal body; redemption in Christ, we proclaim His power in Jesus Christ to rescue and not destroy. He could very easily destroy us just as I did the fire and the tractor with water.
The unique thing is that God did destroy the earth with water in Noah’s day. (Genesis 6, 7 and 8) Yet God’s covenant to creation is that this will not happen again by water. In the meantime His power is enabled to deliver us individually from this pending eternal death to life everlasting because His power is directed at the restoration power found in Jesus Christ His Son Hebrews 10:5-10.
Let us not forget the element of fire… there will be another total destruction of the earth, including the heavens this time. The Day of the LORD is not far away, temporal time is running out. Read 2 Peter 3:10-13, be ready and keep looking up in order that you will not be ashamed at His appearing.
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