Receiving The Forever Gift

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Micah 5:2 talks about the One who was born in Bethlehem. Beyond that it says "from the days of forever." Clearly, someone is from the days of forever. Everyone begins at one point in time, but only One is from forever. Only One has no beginning--God! The One born in Bethlehem is God--Messiah. It has to be that way because only God is God, only God is good, and only what comes from God is good. Messiah didn't really come from Bethlehem. He came from eternity. Bethlehem received Him. So we need to be like Bethlehem. If you try to produce righteousness, love or holiness, it won't be good. You can't produce God from yourself; you must receive Him every day from eternity. You receive that which you didn't begin, and it will become a blessing in your life. Messiah, the Gift of God, is not from Bethlehem, but through Bethlehem, from the days of eternity. Realize that all the good you will ever do in the Lord cannot be produced. It can only be received and then given from the days of eternity.

From Message #938 - Days of Eternity