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For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
1 Peter 1:23 NLT
It's so easy to lose sight of this eternal perspective...Pete then goes on to quote Isaiah 40, reminding them of what they know of God. 
Eternal.
His word is Eternal
And our life is now part of that forever story.
When we lived in PNG there was some kind of game where you had to try and catch a piglet that was greased with something to make it more slippery. Just when you think you have a firm grasp it would slip away...
Getting a grasp of what my life is like now that it is wrapped in Jesus life, the Word, the Eternal, is just like that.
This life that does end, that is short, that is full of good and joy and sorrow and loss and despair and hope and blessing and...and...is not all that there is.
At the same time my life is in Jesus, and when I think I get that, and truly live in the light of the reality of that...it slips from my grasp...
That does not make it less true as we keep trying to grasp that eternal perspective of life in Jesus.
#sunday
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#thisisourGod
#eternal
#mylifeissafeinhis
#restinthattoday

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