8th Day Love,part one

8^th Day Love

We were listening to music in the car the other day. So, my wife changed the music to some old Beatles songs. Now I’m talking about the older Beatles music, Love, Love, Me Do; She Loves You, you know the good early stuff. Not the strange stuff that came later, when John became a walrus and the band had a magical mystery tour.

 Now the Beatles aren’t known for their deep spiritual lyrics but the words of their song “8 days a Week” hit me.

“Eight days a week

I love you

Eight days a week

Is not enough to show I care”

That is the kind of love God wants for us and from us. He wants us to be so in love with Him and his creation that there aren’t enough hours in the day or week to fit our love in. God wants that 8 days a week kind of love.

 God’s love is like that for us. We serve a God of the 8^th day. God created the world in seven days, yet it was on the 8^th day that everything really began. In fact our eternity as children of God begins on the eight day.

 God could have stopped and put everything on hold after creation, but it was in the days following His creation that the true glory of God became known. Jeremiah 31:3 states “The Lord appeared to him from afar saying, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have drawn you with loving-kindness…”. The love that God provides is beyond the creation, beyond the garden and it is an everlasting love. God was here there for us in the garden he is here for us now and will be there for forever.

Isaiah declares in 40:28, “Do you not know? That the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable”.

There was rest on the seventh day of creation, but God was not tired, God is in this for the long haul, the everlasting, His is an eternal commitment to those He created. All of this is hard for us to understand because this is God we are talking about. He will not and did not give up on us.

 Jesus too is an 8^th day lover.

His ministry on earth was focused on the 8^th day, the day of resurrection and the day that opened heaven’s gates to eternity for us. The final week of Jesus work on earth was focused on the eight day. He came to Jerusalem for the Passover feast and triumphantly enter to shouts of hosanna, He finished the week buried in the grave. It was the eight day that brought our release from Satan’s grip and our call to glory with our Savior Jesus.

 We know this verse so well, John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life”. We need to lean on the truth that through death and resurrection of Jesus we have everlasting life. There is life beyond the veil, there is life after death. There is an 8^th day to look forward too.

 We all need to be 8^th day believers, livers and lovers.

We need to live as if there is an 8^th day. We need to live as if we don’t have enough time in our week to share God’s love for one another.

Frank J Walker LMFT

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