{"id":7295,"date":"2023-03-02T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7295"},"modified":"2023-03-02T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:28:55","slug":"for-an-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=7295","title":{"rendered":"For an Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For an eternity!  Before anything was made!
The Triune God existed:
Independent, self-sufficient, self-contained.
Content, He needed nothing – angels, people, matter.
Yes, this God, happy, yes, and in need of nothing<\/em>,
Was content to entertain Himself by making things out of nothing<\/em>.
He got around to creating angels sometime way back
In heavenly history, and it wasn’t out of a need<\/em>.
The Father, Son and Spirit wanted<\/em> to create other beings.
And that brings us to human history recounted in Genesis.
In the beginning of history as it concerns humans,
God decided to create human beings in His very “image”:
That is, a being with moral<\/em> standing.  And this Adam
Was righteous as the day is long and bright.
But he wasn’t endowed with the might
To resist the choice to disobey – to sin.
He was made able to choose<\/em> to disobey and to die.
(Yeah, that “choice” thing can get a person in trouble!)
And God, the Father, Son, and Spirit knew this
And yet proceeded with a purpose we do not fully know.
But we do understand that history will prove His glory<\/em>.
It is not a meaningless account of countless stories.
Oh the Blessed Trinity!
For an eternity, the Father witnessed
The love between the Son and the Spirit,
And for an eternity, the Son witnessed
The love between the Spirit and the Father.
And for and eternity, the Spirit witnessed
The love between the Father and the Son.
So it is that the Triune God existed from eternity.
And so, on it goes, as all three witness your<\/em> life
And for you provide a remedy for your <\/em>sin:
The Son taking the blows as He was led by
The Spirit sent by the Father to die and rise again.
And what do you do about this invaluable work?
Do you look away and go about life like some jerk?
Wake up and deal with what really matters in life;
Give up all the vain pursuits and meaningless strife.
Bow before the One who died for you saved you from death.
Do it now, don’t wait a minute, can’t count upon another breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early a.m. and 1511 on 2 March, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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