Posts Tagged ‘ Forever ’
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8, CSB
God is faithful, and His unchanging nature gives hope and trust in His faithfulness, knowing He does what He says and has already accomplished all that is necessary.
For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.
Psalm 100:5, CSB
God is faithful, and His faithfulness grows from His love. Get to know that God who loves us faithfully.
It is a great day! Pi Day Friday! Celebrate mathematics and get a slice of pie! 🥧
Firstly, let me acknowledge what I am sure most of you are surely and most absolutely thinking (and for full clarity, /mild sarcasm): I know the original Greek letter is pronounced like our English letter, p. But in the maths, we generally call it “pie” for delicious and practical reasons.
Secondly, why talk about mathematics and π on a biblical blog? I’m glad you asked! I was going to get around to it! (😉)
The symbol of pi is what is called a constant number (universally true), an irrational number (not simple, reducible, or strictly finite, like “1” or “3” or “42” or “1/3” or “70”), and a fun number (at least by me), and it is used to help find the circumference (length of the outside) and area of a circle, as well as so much more. As far as we know, it has an infinite number of decimal places, starting with 3.1415926……
Hence Pi Day being celebrated on March 14, or as the US and a few others annotate it, 3/14 or 3.14.
To circle back to our primary purpose, we see the use of this rounded of non-round numbers actually appear in the Bible: 1 Kings 7:23 – the bronze/metal/molten sea/basin that is used for ritual washing in the Temple. It’s measurements were 10 cubits across (about 15 feet/4.5 meters, diameter) and 30 cubits around (about about 45 feet/13.7 meters, circumference). Thay works out to roughly 3, or close to pi.
It has to do with being a constant and irrational number.
Pi is a reminder of the Trinity: the constant God that does not make perfect sense to our finite minds.
God’s faithful love is constant.
Psalm 52:1b, CSB
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you”
Malachi 3:6a, ESVJesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8, CSB“And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. He is the Spirit of truth.”
John 14:16-17a, CSB
Pi serves as a reminder that Christ taking on humanity puts a human element in the Trinity, which sounds irrational and like more than 3 in 1 (like 3.14?), which also sounds irrational to our finite minds. (To be clear, I am not saying that humans are now part of the Trinity or that we become God!)
Pi is also a reminder that simple things are not necessarily easy things to understand and can seem foolish to others.
But the person without the Spirit does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.
1 Corinthians 2:14, CSBbut we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles. [24] Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, [25] because God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
1 Corinthians 1:23-25, CSB
So, on Pi Day, get some pie, and remember that the Cbristian life may seem irrational, but it is grounded in the constant God who cleanses and purifies us, who brings our lives full circle to be in relationship with Him through the forgiveness of sins by the work of Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit to the glory of the Father.
Simple as pi[e].
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13:8, CSB
We are called to call others to Jesus, and knowing He never changes gives us hope and confidence to share His promises of salvation and returning to judge us all.
as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:6, ESV
Jesus Christ is our eternal God and High Priest who presents us to the Father, because He was our faithful Savior who understands us.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8, ESV
God has given us His grace, not as a one-time boost or temporary fix, but His grace is all-encompassing and forever.
May we share that grace with our world.
A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:6-8, ESV
At Advent, we look back at why Jesus had to come, that He came, and then that He will come again.
Our sins have stacked up to heaven, deeper and more vile than we could know.
Sin is the act of willfully separating from God, putting something between God and ourselves, weakening ourselves from the inside out as we cut ourselves off from the source of life.
And God will let us have what we want. (Romans 1:20-32)
Therefore, we internally die continually, and the only hope is a long life to stave off the eternal death and suffering.
All because we choose our sin over God and His Word.
We therefore prepare ourselves by investigating His eternal Word through reading the Scriptures and trusting in the Son.
We may still suffer in this world, but we have the hope of eternal life in New bodies with our Lord forever.
May we seek the Lord who gives us life, preparing ourselves by seeking His Word.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8, ESV
Our Lord never changes. He is always loving, compassionate, and just.
His Word is still true: He does not abide sin [for long], but took our punishment on Himself, if we believe it.
Otherwise, those who refuse to follow Him are still under His wrath.
a simple man of God 