Malachi 4, Isaiah 66, Revelation 22
What God said to me – My ways are not your ways. My ways are higher than yours. I always see things from an eternal perspective and it’s difficult for you to see anything but the temporal. For example, when I expelled Adam and Eve from the garden because of their sin, you say “it was just one small sin, give them another chance.” But from My perspective, I see what would happen if they ate from the tree of life rather than from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They would have been eternally separated from Me in their sin. The kindest thing I could do for them was to protect them by expelling them from the garden until I could redeem them. I see the end from the beginning, and I know that the tree of life is going to be available to them in the end once I have redeemed them. So, remember this story when you look at your life and wonder why I denied you some things you wanted and led you down a different path. In My kindness, I work in your life as you need in order to transform you into My image and to prepare you for the tree of life so you can live forever with Me.