BBD 06.24.05 Living in Beulah Land
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06.24.05
Living in Beulah Land
(Originally sent 01.09.03)
You shall no longer be termed Forsaken, nor shall your land any more be
termed Desolate; but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah;
for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. - Isaiah 62:4.
(Hephzibah means literally, my delight is in her. Beulah means literally,
married.)
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first
earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the
holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and
they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.' -
Revelation 21:1-3.
Looking out my back door I can see calves grazing on the green wheat
pasture. It is a peaceful setting, an idyllic setting. The calves have no
worries about their future because their immediate need of food is cared for
by the expanse of wheat available for them to eat. However, the calves
cannot see that at some point in their future they will be loaded up and
taken to be sold. The calves will become neatly packaged meat in some
grocery store.
The lives of many people resemble that of cattle. Many become absorbed in
their day-to-day activities of work and play. They have little desire to
hear about the future because the present is fulfilling. But we are not
cattle. We have the capacity of mind to look forward in time with
imagination to our ultimate end. What is it that you see when you look
toward that time? Do you know what is waiting for you there? Do you look
forward with anticipation or dread?
I can remember one of the first times I looked forward in time to the end of
my life. It was a frightening experience because in my mind it was dark and
unknown. I didn't know what would happen when I reached the end of my
physical life. Five years later after I received Christ as my Savior I could
then look ahead to the future and the darkness was gone because I knew what
lie ahead. What lay ahead would be Heaven - living in a perfect place where
the Lord God will be the very light. The marriage will have been completed
in New Jerusalem and we will be living in Beulah Land.
The Bible says at the end of Revelation 21, "But there shall by no means
enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only
those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life (v. 27)." Is your name
written in the Lamb's Book of Life?
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