The Book Of Life

"When God writes our names in the Lamb's Book of Life, He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity."

R.C. Sproul

"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."

Daniel 12:1

"And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life."

Philippians 4:3

I'm so excited!  Why am I excited?  I'm expecting Valerie M. Bodden's new book, Hearts of Hope in the mail today! What makes this new book so exciting?  (Besides the fact that VMB is a Christian Fiction Author who never disappoints her readers and always glorifies Christ in her books?)  

What makes her new book so exciting for me, personally?

My name will be listed in the Acknowledgments!  As an Advanced Reader for her recent work, I was chosen to Read and Review her new book before it was Published.  After exchanging emails with this Author, she asked if she could list my name in the Acknowledgements?  I was humbly honored by being one of many who will be listed in the back of her newest book. (Someday, Lord willing, my name will be on the front of a book!)

But in my excitement, God reminded me of something far greater than my name being listed on the Acknowledgments page for previewing a temporary, fictional novel.

My name is written eternally in the Lamb's Book of Life!  Not because I read and reviewed the Bible, no, but because I believe IN The Person of the Greatest Story Ever Told:  The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." Revelation 21:27

On July 5, 1995, my name was eternally written down in the Lamb's Book of Life...

    Will your name be there...?"

        It can be...

            Turn from your sin and turn to Christ...

                But that's just me!

"Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life."  David Jeremiah

"but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." Words of Jesus,

Luke 10:20b