From Eternity

II Chronicles 5:7-14

"The priests then brought the ark of the LORD's covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim. The cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and covered the ark and its carrying poles. These poles were so long that their ends, extending from the ark, could be seen from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today. There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt. The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were musicians--Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives--stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: "He is good; His love endures forever." Then the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the temple of God."

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is His faithfulness (Lam 3:22-23)! I think the fundamental misstep of our honest agnostic friends in the idea that the concept of God is something we can never grasp and therefore can never know, is the assumption that God can also never reveal Himself to us or wouldn’t. But when we often talk of God's mercy, compassion, and love as affirmed in the Bible, we begin to understand that God desired for Himself to relate to us and make His reality and presence known. Across history, the Bible, in the world around us, and a reasonable inference to established events tell us that when it comes to humanity discerning God, indeed “for what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that people are without excuse (Rom 1:19-20).” The next step is believing He cares, and He does, towards His chosen people, Israel then, we see and towards His church now in Christ, towards us, His love endures (v. 13): “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).”