The Devotional – 1462 – The Book of Life

The Devotional – 1462 – The Book of Life

Proverbs 19:27 – Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. (There is no “maybe” in this verse!)

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While our soul is on earth it is vexed by having a double image (1) your soul is made in likeness of God, Genesis 1:26-28 and (2) after man sinned he was made in the likeness of Adam, Genesis 5:1-3. We can say from these passages that our soul is marred and is in grief on one hand and in selfishness on the other. Thus it is in grief to do good and likewise in fear to be selfish and do evil. This dual expression of the soul is evident from birth, any parent knows full well the reign of terror a new born babe can express when a feeding is missed, or the peaceful and sweet infant observed when all is well.

Yet in all of mankind’s woes Genesis 3:17-24, God has not abandoned him, God provided a way for man’s misbehavior to be settled; Genesis 3:15, 20 and John 3:16 provide the needed provision or way of reconciliation. If God had turned His back on humanity we would have no hope and no reason to be interested in the only true love and relationship with our Creator and thus our soul would just vanish and we would be nothing more than an animal.

I cannot imagine anyone alive wanting to be without his or her soul, it is a place where God consciousness is. The astronaut will tell you that there is room for him and God in space. The submariner will tell you that God is with him in the deepest part of the oceans and the miner will affirm that God is present while he digs deeper into the minerals of the earth. Yet this awareness of the presence of God for every human is still “temporal at best”. No matter where mankind goes, he must at some point in time… die! The soul at that time leaves it’s temporal abode and goes into an eternal place.

No longer is the temporal universe and earth a place for the soul since the body where the soul lived has died and returned to the earth. God provides two other places for the soul to spend eternity. One is a place that was originally designed by God for Satan and his demonic angels, but it is also large enough to contain the souls of men and women who maintained a selfish soul, those who worshipped good and evil, so first we will take a look at a place of evil.

Now I would suspect that all of this will not be covered in today’s devotional as I can see that there is a large amount of information that the LORD is directing me to in His Word. So I will begin to conclude for today, but please stay tuned. If you have a soul that is without the present knowledge of the existing love of God you should take the days ahead to stay with this. Did you know that you are already written in the Book of Life? DO NOT TOSS THIS ASIDE, take the time and read.

We will look at a few verses… Exodus 32:32-33 – “Yet now, if You will forgive their sin – but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” And the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. Also see, Deuteronomy 29:20 and Psalm 69:26-28 a Psalm of David.

Of course we always save the best for the last and so does the LORD in His holy word. And before I share this verse I must say that there are more passages on the subject of the book of Life than I first thought and there are separate books written by God listing people of nations so there can be much confusion about the LAMB’s Book of Life, but I believe that this last reference clears the confusion. So STOP rejecting the love of God and turn to Him, you will be overjoyed if you do.

Revelation 3:4-5 – Jesus speaking to the church of Sardis says this: “You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments (flesh); and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy”. “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. Now in verse one of Revelation 3 Jesus calls the Sardis church dead, yet the names of the dead are still available in the Book of Life.

So hang on to these thoughts as we carry this over until Wednesday.