Isa 54:16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc.
God purposes and intends that there be “havoc” and frustration…
Ro 8:20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it…
The created order intentionally contains death, mourning, crying and pain. (Rev 21:4)
Jesus was subjected to it
Ro 6:9 …death no longer has mastery over him.
For a time it did.
For us it does and it will serve us for eternity. We will always enjoy paradise from the vantage point of those who have suffered the deprivation that is a taste of hell. So many have said, if we could just experience heaven and hell for a minute each, we would make a clear choice between the two, but that is what this life is: moments of sheer exuberance and joy and others of the unfulfilled longings of hell.
Every day is an opportunity to make a choice or solidify the one we have made.
This pain serves us daily now, clarifying our choice of Christ. Though it includes earthly disappointments, those disappointments will serve us for all time and eternity. We will never be tempted as Lucifer and his angles were, to abandon heaven for something better. We will have tasted Godlessness and hell and spit it eternally from our mouths. It is this experience that will cause us to cling to heaven gratefully cheerfully and those are good emotions to envision.
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret?
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind--C.S. Lewis
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