Revelation 21 - It Is Done

A chapter a week, nearly every week for the past 3 years or so has us looking at Revelation 21.  I love this chapter.  I can't wait to see it.  I could read it over and over again and never get bored.  Check it out:

"It is done.  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.  I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.  Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children." (v. 6-7)

And:

"I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.  The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.  The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.  On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.  The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.  Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life."  (v. 22-27)

Having one's name written in this Lamb's book of life is not hard to do.  It simply requires that we humble ourselves enough to admit that we are in need.  We cannot save ourselves.  We cannot get out of our own way.  We need a savior and that Savior is Jesus Christ, who shed His blood to pay for our eternal salvation.