The Book of Life

Another journal entry... maybe I'll just save a step and make this blog my journal. (Kidding.) I hope this thought touches your very soul, as it did mine:

When time is over, God is not going to open the book of law to see who kept the law by their own strength. He's going to open the book of Life, to see whose names are written there. Jesus IS the book of life!

Isaiah 49

¹³ Sing, O heavens!
      Be joyful, O earth!
      And break out in singing, O mountains!
      For the LORD has comforted His people,
      And will have mercy on His afflicted.

¹⁴ But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me,
       the Lord has forgotten me." 

 ¹⁵ "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
       and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
       Though she may forget,
       I will not forget you!

   ¹⁶ See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;

      Your walls are continually before Me.

My name has been written - inscribed - in the book of Life. My name was inscribed  - written - on the  palms of His hands as He was crucified, thinking of me. The Book of Life is the only way into  heaven. Heaven's life. Abundant life. And the Father. And Jesus, Messiah, is that book.

John 14

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. 

No one comes to the Father except through Me."