As I read the last sentence of Joshua 21…Not one of the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled. v. 45, I couldn’t help but think about what it must have been like for them when Moses first started to follow God’s instructions to go to the powerful Pharaoh to ask him to let the Lord’s people go to worship Him. Before that, they were toiling in slavery and crying out for help but did they imagine how God would answer? They couldn’t have imagined the particulars or the experiences they would face good and bad because nothing like it had ever happened before to any people. I suspect they couldn’t have imagined hearing God’s voice…but they did!

What about us? Can we imagine hearing God’s voice or His working powerfully in our busy, ordinary lives to fulfill His good promises?

We have been blessed to have a pastor who is leading us to a closer, personal awareness of God’s Presence in our lives. I’m sure there are many pastors, priests, rabbis doing that as well all over this world. Helping us to experience God’s love which is personal.

When you allow your heart to long for a relationship with our Creator God, when you ask for His help, it’s as though a curtain slowly opens wider and joy is visible and real. You begin to experience a difference between your life before God and your life with God. The curtain is the veil that obscures God’s love. His love is the light that fills eternity and removes that veil.

He asked me this morning, Do you love me? With all my heart, Lord! Let your love for Me join with My love for you and fill you with My peace. There is no beginning or end to My love which is ours. Walk in newness with Me.

Newness with God beside us showing us what love is. His love is our peace. How can I ever turn back and go behind the curtain that veils my eyes so I see only this world with all its sorrows? Recently we’ve watched some popular shows on TV and it struck me that I was watching violence created in the minds of writers for our entertainment. There are people living that violence today. That’s our world; veiled to God’s love.

I live in this world but I want to walk with God in newness with Him listening to His still small voice guiding my heart to closeness with Him. There is His peace with Him and I know His good promises that will heal every wound, every sorrow. I know His love. I know His love for everyone. I trust His love for everyone and it is a good, good promise I cling to. The veil is temporary. His love is eternal.