by Tamela Greenwell

Created on: September 04, 2008

The Everlasting Father

Nothing is permanent in this earth. There is an end of time that will come for everything and everyone. There is nothing that is everlasting here. Friends come and friends go. Loved ones are here and then they are gone. Money comes and money goes. Houses and stuff, it all comes and it all goes.

I have always known this but I didn't really think about it to much until yesterday after putting our dog (Angel) to sleep. She had been with us for almost 15 years. We have put pets to sleep before but this time it was just different somehow. I started thinking about how nothing in this life lasts forever. As I started thinking about the last fifteen years with our dog Angel, it made me think about the last fifteen years as a whole, and what life has entailed.

Our children grew as Angel grew. We have lived in many different places in the last 15 years. It made me take inventory of life and what life is all about. There is no permanence, no consistencies. When it is all said and done, there is an end that comes and it cannot be stopped. Life is fleeting. There is fulfillment for the short vapor of time and then there is a sense of emptiness that hovers once again.

This was starting to make me feel really discouraged and depressed. But as I was in my prayer time I began thinking about how nice it would be to always have a sense of forever, and eternity. Then the Lord reminded me that He is my Everlasting Father. He is EVERLASTING. He has no end. He had to remind me that He's my eternity and all of life is eternal in Him. There is no end with Him and in Him. With Him and in Him is life everlasting. This brought me great hope and peace. I was reminded of the scriptures in Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. The Lord was lovingly reminding me of who He is to me and to all of us for that matter. Our Everlasting Father.

I was reminded that I do have a hope and something to look forward to. I began to encourage myself in the Lord for who He is to me and for me. He is my fulfillment. I had to ask myself would I really look forward to my life with Him if I never felt a sense of emptiness here? God reminded me that this is not my home and I am just passing through. My home is with Him, my place is with Him. My treasures are laid up in heaven where moth and rust don't corrupt,

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