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The root value of an eternal relationship with God is the flow of God’s grace into the wholeness of our lives. This is God’s “weight of glory” — In his glory, God raised Jesus from the dead and gave us immeasureable grace. Jesus was raised for our sake so that grace as it extends to more and more people, increases more thanksgiving to the glory of God. We are forever grateful for his eternal grace, the intrinsic nature for our growing relationship with him. Although our outer nature is wasting away day by day, our inner nature, our relationship with God is being renewed day by day. It is this renewal that prepares us for an eternal weight of glory, worthy beyond all measure.
This is the true worth in relationship, not things. Although material value in the things you can see or touch may enhance your life; but there is a greater — the value of true worth is something you cannot see or touch — something you primarily experience spiritually within your total self. This true worth is a personal relationship with God, who has a plan, who gives us grace, with whom we embrace God’s eternal relationship that surpasses all things.
God is available! And he wants us as his people, (then, now, and future) bringing us hope in our growing relationship with him, not simply in our human accomplishments; but within our inner nature with the One who redeemed us. When Jesus speaks of the “eternal,” he means that our worth is not set on what “rust and moth destroy,” but on things above, on what lasts, what will not be lost. “Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother” (Mark 3:35).
God is at work in us, and he speaks to us. In our prayer and devotional meditation God is present and dwells within us and we dwell within the wholeness of the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit. This is essential for our sustenance; essential in God’s timing that which we may not see immediately; essential in answers we seek, and in our faithfullness all truths become clearer because God’s desire is to have a close relationship with us, eternally.
So, we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever (v. 28).
Amen.
Rev. Carole, Assistant Pastor
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