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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother’s name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” though it have “no language but a cry,” will never call in vain.
Alexander MacLaren

Do you want to go to heaven? I mean, do you really want to go to heaven? Let’s remember that heaven is a place of perfect holiness. That means as we delight in beholding God’s glory now, it is as if we are, 2 Corinthians 3:18, “beholding [Him] as if in a mirror.” Heaven will be direct exposure to the fullness of His glory. Why there and not here? Because we still have sin. Yet the split second Christians die, they are instantly transformed to be as righteous as Christ. Now we are declared as perfectly righteous as Christ. Then we will be made as perfectly righteous as Christ. If you are in Christ, this will be your state into all of eternity. Therefore I have to make the two following conclusions: One, we can think of our time here on earth as we are being made more holy like God only as preparation for our future existence with Him. And two, if you really want to go to heaven and be as holy as God throughout all of eternity, isn’t it safe to assume you’d desire it right now as well?
Randy Smith

Bible – Finnish 1938 Psalms Chapter 122:1-9.

Index: Finnish 1938

 

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122:1 Matkalaulu; Daavidin virsi. Minä iloitsin, kun minulle sanottiin: “Menkäämme Herran huoneeseen”.

122:2 Meidän jalkamme saavat seisoa sinun porteissasi, Jerusalem;

122:3 sinä Jerusalem, rakennettu kaupungiksi, johon kokoonnutaan yhteen,

122:4 jonne sukukunnat vaeltavat, Herran sukukunnat, niinkuin Israelille on säädetty, kiittämään Herran nimeä.

122:5 Sillä siellä ovat tuomioistuimet, Daavidin huoneen istuimet.

122:6 Toivottakaa rauhaa Jerusalemille, menestykööt ne, jotka sinua rakastavat.

122:7 Rauha olkoon sinun muuriesi sisällä, olkoon onni sinun linnoissasi.

122:8 Veljieni ja ystävieni tähden minä sanon: olkoon sinulla rauha.

122:9 Herran, meidän Jumalamme, huoneen tähden minä tahdon etsiä sinun parastasi.