But For Him

"But for Him."

I HELD GOD’S HEART in my hands and let the tears fall. A passage I’d read many times leapt out at me differently. Not as my revelation but as His. God has shared His heart with us. In sending His Son, He has declared the greatness of His love for fallen man.

Yet we doubt it. We argue about it. That doesn’t change the Truth which any who seek Him are allowed to see and find. We are the most selfish creatures. Mostly, we come to Him wanting things for ourselves. We aren’t there to comfort Him but for Him to do for us, and He does do for us. But there I am, back again, staring at those verses, and what I said was for His comfort and not His for mine.

He has promised us a new heaven and a new earth, and we rejoice in this, looking forward to eternal life without pain or anger or fear. We all want to see Jesus. But God’s point-of-view is different from ours. Where we see chaos today, everyone choosing their own direction, He sees the totality of it. Oh, He knows us individually. I cannot stress how much or how specific this is. We must know He sees and cares about all the details of us. We must also know what looks like many lanes and people going in a million directions is actually one lane and all of us going forward.

A mother and father revealed their newborn daughter to their three young boys, who were so happy to see her and hold her, and in those precious moments, there was God’s heart again, at the beginning of time, speaking replicated life from the unity of Adam and Eve. This is day-to-day to us. It was a miracle to them. And God saw multitudes, nations, countries. Israel, and Mary and Joseph and their infant son, His Son, Jesus, our Messiah. But between there and the garden, where life was perfect and beyond our imagination, were streams of people who lived and loved and died. Some with the wrong eyesight.

Is it that God didn’t care about them or that He did so very much? I can tell you the answer. Because those verses today spoke His heart, told of His love, a greatness of adoration beyond our ability to comprehend it. That one day, there’d be a new heaven and a new earth, for us, yes, but for Him. For the Father, who gave us His greatest gift, a life so valuable He would resurrect it. For the Son, for Jesus, who stood there, outside the tomb unable to believe He’d walked out of it. And for the Spirit, who could now fill mankind. He could live in them and direct them and walk with them from birth to death and into infinite time. Where there’d be no more death, nor more sorrow, nor more separation. But union, as He’s longed for it to be. Except most of us as simply too self-serving to stop and know it.

“No! They were longing for a better country —a land free from selfishness, disease, death, crime and exploitation, where guards, police and security are no longer needed—they were longing for heaven. Therefore God is honored to be known as their God (for they value his methods of love, truth, and freedom) and he has prepared an eternal home for them.” (Hebrews 11:16, Remedy)

“… because he was looking beyond this selfish world—to the world of perfect health and happiness to come.” (Hebrews 11:26, Remedy)

“But don’t get discouraged, for God has planned something much better for us: They and we together will be perfectly healed, and will rejoice together in the earth made new.” (Hebrews 11:40, Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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