"Gone, But Not Forgotten" -2

"My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?" (Psalms 41:5) And then, we have Jesus, whom the Jewish leaders had thought that they had ridden His name from being mentioned among them; and yet, even to this very day, His name has been spread throughout the earth, and continues to be spread, despite all that they did to try and get rid of Him. I watched The Passion of The Christ again last night, and I was very impressed with the look of resolve that was displayed in the face of Jesus every time He needed strength to carry on, as if The Helper was there all along pushing Him onward, even beyond that of most other men; even those that were beating Him were amazed that He kept getting up, especially after He saw His mother watching. And those flashbacks to Him speaking with His disciples, as He would look upon something that reminded Him of what He had said, and experience something that would trigger a moment of reflection as to what He had done, or had previously happened in His life. We must not ever forget God's promises and the victories that have taken place in our lives; those things are what can give us encouragement when we have moments of weakness and of suffering. God does not change, even as He does not change His mind; we are the ones that change; we are the ones that cannot make up our minds: one moment we have courage, the next, we want to curl up into a ball and die. But God, He is always the same distance from us as He has ever been; He is always just a prayer away from a sinners heart... "Incline your ear unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He hath glorified thee. Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." (Isaiah 55:3-7)