(TODAY)

   Today is a day of God's absolute grace, a time when a perfectly matched pair of facing parentheses offers a door into the kingdom of heaven, which His love holds open wide. By a single, comprehensive, incomparable and incomprehensible decision of divine compassion, the door once slammed shut by the demands of peerless justice, stands open still, and the space between the parentheses is taken up by  the beautiful word "today". "Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." God gives us today because sin tempts us to trifle with His grace, daring us to test the limits of divine love that even now holds back the fierceness of His justice. Like a mighty seawall that limits the destructive powers of an epic storm, the grace of God holds back His justice, restraining it from breaching the divine space determined and set in the eons of eternity past, when the sacred secret of salvation was whispered by the Father into the ear of the pre- incarnated Son.
   For now sin continues in its rebellion, rebellion as of the sin of witchcraft, that convinces its informed and uninformed practitioners that the powers they summon-up are strong enough to stand against the fury of God's pent up justice, justice that impatiently waits like ten thousand steeds, bred, anxious and fully dressed for battle. But sin deceives itself and its hosts because it has no power against the wrath of Almighty God. In fact it borrows its time and steals its freedom in this world within the invisible parentheses of grace, from the sacred space itself, where the love of God holds out His grace and holds back His justice until the last soul that can enter through the door of salvation, has.
   The day is fast approaching when the door into the kingdom heaven will be shut and taken up into the heavenlies. At a moment unknown to all but God, the anxious, pounding and restrained storm of His wrath against sin will burst through the gates of heaven and spill down upon an unrepentant world. A world that rejected a thousand today's, and placed all its hopes on tomorrow. For them there can be no more today's, and the tomorrow's they bet on, they will be an endless stream of regret and eternal from God.
   “Today” is a day of salvation, for "today" is that beautiful word whose letters take-up the space between the divine parentheses provided by the love of God, wherein no space is wasted. Do not think that it is sin with its power that holds back the love of God. It is the love of God that holds sin in check and His own justice back. "Today if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion” Today is a day of grace. Today God's justice is still restrained by His love for you. Leave your sin, all of it, and enter into the kingdom of heaven.