You know how sometimes you just read the Bible, and then there are times you READ the Bible? It's usually times like the latter when we get a real revelation. I did that this morning.
It started in Phil 1:6 (which has been my life scripture for as long as I can remember).
I am sure that the good work God began in you will continue until he completes it on the day when Jesus Christ comes again. (ERV) So...I'm a work in progress until the day Jesus returns. For that matter, so are you! We won't be perfected until that day. In other words, we need a LOT of work! Hmmm...what about the ones who have died? Are they just sleeping until that day because they were already finished? God was through perfecting them? So...maybe they didn't need as much work as I do? (or you?) Leave me a comment at the bottom of this page if this speaks to you. Share your thoughts with me.
As I continued to read I was reminded of something else. Not only am I a work in progress that won't be completed until Jesus returns ... but God's got a new name for me. I won't be Ruth or Lyne ... when God says He makes all things new - He makes all things new. Thank goodness! We'll have a new home, a new body (whew), a new life (awesome) and a new name!
Rev. 2:17 (CEV) To everyone who wins the victory, I will give some of the hidden food. I will also give each one a white stone with a new name written on it. No one will know that name except the one who is given the stone.
Is that cool or what? I had to stop long enough to think about the hidden food - that refers (according to my Concordance) to when the people of Israel were going through the desert, the Lord provided a special food (manna) for them. Aaron placed some of it in a jar and stored in the sacred chest (Exodus 16). According to later Jewish teaching, the prophet Jeremiah rescued the sacred chest when the temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. He hid the chest in a cave, where it would stay until God came to save his people.
So what about the white stone? Nothing I could find really defined it exactly. It is believed by some that it may be kind of like a ticket that gets the bearer into God's banquet where the "hidden food" is eaten. Immediately I thought of the "new name" as God's own special password for me. Yeah, I'm geeky like that. But, isn't that dope!? I mean God is so in love with you (and me) that He is saving the best for last!
Once we faithfully get through all that we are going through on this earth - He makes all things new - even our name! He's got a special one just for you - just for me. I like to think of it like a password - something He's thought of especially for each one of us. AND ... "no one will know that name except the one who is given the stone."
Wow! That's all. Just WOW!
It started in Phil 1:6 (which has been my life scripture for as long as I can remember).
I am sure that the good work God began in you will continue until he completes it on the day when Jesus Christ comes again. (ERV) So...I'm a work in progress until the day Jesus returns. For that matter, so are you! We won't be perfected until that day. In other words, we need a LOT of work! Hmmm...what about the ones who have died? Are they just sleeping until that day because they were already finished? God was through perfecting them? So...maybe they didn't need as much work as I do? (or you?) Leave me a comment at the bottom of this page if this speaks to you. Share your thoughts with me.
As I continued to read I was reminded of something else. Not only am I a work in progress that won't be completed until Jesus returns ... but God's got a new name for me. I won't be Ruth or Lyne ... when God says He makes all things new - He makes all things new. Thank goodness! We'll have a new home, a new body (whew), a new life (awesome) and a new name!
Rev. 2:17 (CEV) To everyone who wins the victory, I will give some of the hidden food. I will also give each one a white stone with a new name written on it. No one will know that name except the one who is given the stone.
Is that cool or what? I had to stop long enough to think about the hidden food - that refers (according to my Concordance) to when the people of Israel were going through the desert, the Lord provided a special food (manna) for them. Aaron placed some of it in a jar and stored in the sacred chest (Exodus 16). According to later Jewish teaching, the prophet Jeremiah rescued the sacred chest when the temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. He hid the chest in a cave, where it would stay until God came to save his people.
So what about the white stone? Nothing I could find really defined it exactly. It is believed by some that it may be kind of like a ticket that gets the bearer into God's banquet where the "hidden food" is eaten. Immediately I thought of the "new name" as God's own special password for me. Yeah, I'm geeky like that. But, isn't that dope!? I mean God is so in love with you (and me) that He is saving the best for last!
Once we faithfully get through all that we are going through on this earth - He makes all things new - even our name! He's got a special one just for you - just for me. I like to think of it like a password - something He's thought of especially for each one of us. AND ... "no one will know that name except the one who is given the stone."
Wow! That's all. Just WOW!
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