#everlasting joy

[roguecanoe]

Week 84 Everlasting Joy Hollow Reality

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

John Piper

[wiirocku]

Isaiah 61:7 (NLT) - Instead of shame and dishonor,    you will enjoy a double share of honor. You will possess a double portion of prosperity in your land,    and everlasting joy will be yours.

[thebiblejournalproject-blog]

That verse from Revelation gives me hope when I am overwhelmed with sadness and grief. Someday God will wipe the tears from my eyes, and that will be the last tear of sorrow ever to come out of my eyes.

[megarobosensei19]

Give me more of your Word, Father God. Thank you Lord Jesus for making your home with me. Keep me grounded by Your Word. Praise Your great name. I love You Lord.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Believer's Daily Remembrancer

Devotional for January 31

We joy in God. - Romans 5:11

This is every Believer's privilege; God is reconciled to him in the person and through the work of Jesus; all charges against him are blotted out; all his sins are freely and fully forgiven; he is justified from all things; and stands before God in Christ, accepted, beloved, and blessed.

To him God is love; with him God is at peace; and he is now a son of God. If this is believed on the testimony of God, and realized in the soul as the effect of faith; then God becomes our exceeding joy, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. If we joy in frames, they change; if we joy in friends, they die; if we joy in possessions, they are vanity; but if we joy in God, though the exercise of joy may be interrupted, yet the object remains eternally the same, and we shall joy for evermore.

Beloved, look at Jehovah in Jesus; there you see Him as the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; joy and rejoice in Him as your God, your Portion, your everlasting All. Throughout this day, joy in God as your Father, your Friend, and your Saviour. In this rejoice and be exceeding glad.

O that I could now adore Him, Like the heavenly host above, Who for ever bow before Him, And unceasing sing His love! Happy songsters! When shall I your chorus join?

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.

Thomas Merton

[thebiblejournalproject-blog]

That verse from Revelation gives me hope when I am overwhelmed with sadness and grief. Someday God will wipe the tears from my eyes, and that will be the last tear of sorrow ever to come out of my eyes.