Let Heaven and Earth Rejoice...

Let heaven and earth rejoice that we have a savior who loves us and gave His life for us.  Before the beginning of time.  Before the creation of heaven and earth.  When there was nothing except for the Trinity and sin had not entered the world yet, there was a plan for our salvation.  The sins of Adam and Eve didn't cause our God to come up with a Plan B for humanity.  Our Father knew before time that mankind would need a savior and that Christ was the only perfect sacrifice to take our place and bring us into redemption so we could become joint heirs with Jesus in the kingdom of God. 

It is not a myth.  It is not a story fabricated by man.  It is truth spoken by God himself when he became human and walked upon this earth.  Salvation is a gift freely given.  We do not earn it but we must accept the gift and submit our hearts to Jesus for the rest of our lives.  A gift that is more amazing than we can imagine yet one that many refuse to accept thinking it's "too easy" and there must be something else---something more difficult.  A catch or a trick.  No wonder Jesus said that if we didn't become as little children we could not inherit the kingdom of God.  Little children are trusting.  They are eager to believe in things they cannot see.

My daughter Lynda is in heaven.  She has been there for eight months now.  She is with Jesus because He died for her.  He was the ransom for her soul and she stands beside the one who stood before the Father and proclaimed that "this one is with me".  Life doesn't end with death for a child of God.  It just begins as the old body is cast away and replaced with a perfect body in the likeness of God.  Lynda can run and talk and sing praises to God.  She can recognize her family and talk to the characters in the Bible and hear the stories she's never heard before from the mouths of people like Noah and Jonah. 

My heart is filled and overflowing with gratitude for God allowing me to parent Lynda for 39 of her 42 years on earth and even more for the peace I have knowing that Christ did indeed prepare a place for her and that place is paradise where there is no night, no tears and nothing but sheer joy with the creator of the universe!