Always and Forever... whoa dude!

What a mind blowing thing to imagine... "always and forever"..! Can we really and truly expect our minds to be able to envision all that God can do from His perspective? I mean, we would not need the Word, we would not need faith, and He would not have had to send Jesus to show us just what trust is all about...

If we doubt that the Infinite and Eternal is possible, well, what are we left with?

Probably this : All that exists is limited to what we can understand, making reality a mere opinion.

Let's think and pray on that, and then realize just how awesome God is to have all this going on around us without us having to know too much!

Here's another snippet from Steve Hill's devotional on the subject, God bless you and enjoy His presence and power in your life today. Agape ~ Eric

"Live eternity-conscious"

Before the mountains were born, or Thou didst give birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

Psalm 90:2, NASB

Have you ever tried to imagine eternity? Of course, our finite minds tend to understand things better when we are able to compare the concept to something we already know. For instance, it would be difficult to describe how chocolate tastes to someone who has never tasted it. Similarly, eternity is not a concept easily grasped by humans, whose days are numbered. However, Samuel Davies, a Presbyterian evangelist during the 1700s, relates a beautiful comparison in this passage.

Eternity! We are alarmed at the sound! Lost in the prospect! Eternity with respect to God is a duration without beginning, as well as without end. It is a duration that excludes all number and computation. Days, months, years and ages are lost in it, like drops in the ocean. Millions of millions of years, as many years as there are sands on the seashore or particles of dust in the globe on the earth, all these are nothing to eternity. They do not bear the least imaginable proportion to it, for these will come to an end, as certain as day, but eternity will never, never come to an end. It is a line without an end; it is an ocean without a shore.

As many times a day as you can remember to do so, ask yourself this question: How will my words and deeds today affect eternity? ~ http://www.stevehill.org/ (daily awakenings)

Daily Awakening, a devotional by Stephen Hill

February 8
A Word from Heaven
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:8, 10

I wonder what these shepherds had been discussing just prior to that “heavenly interruption.” Perhaps they had just finished counting the sheep and were discussing one that was missing. Or, one of them could have been commenting that the shepherd’s pie he’d eaten for supper had given him indigestion. Of course, the new tax census Caesar Augustus ordered may have dominated their conversation.

You see, man spends much of his brief earthly sojourn choking on the smog of senseless speculations when what he needs to take in is a fresh word from heaven’s throne. Being consumed with current events can lead us to be so engrossed in earthly things that when God does come on the scene with a fresh word, we often get frightened or angry. Be it a word of instruction, a prophetic word or a rebuking word—our reaction is pretty predictable. We are often startled and afraid, as were the shepherds, or we may become religious and offended like those of the synagogue in Nazareth (see Luke 4:28). Some even shake with conviction as Felix did after hearing the words of Paul (see Acts 24:25).
The shepherds stopped their chitchat long enough to hear a fresh word from heaven and it changed their lives forever. Do you find yourself buried in the deluge of worldly words? Shake them off and seek the fresh breath of heaven for your life and the lives of others.

Remember, we live in a world that desperately needs to hear these heavenly words:

“Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy!”