Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
Have you ever noticed how quickly fall gets here? Like, one day you wake up to the sunlight is rising at 6:30; then the next day you are rising at 7:30 and the sun has not even crested anywhere. I don’t seem to notice as much in the Spring…the spring sunrise just seems to creep up on me, but this fall one … boy howdy … one day you got dawn’s early light and the next you wonder if it is still oh dark thirty. Am I the only one who feels like this?
This morning I woke up around 5 am the first time. It was still quite dark, as it should be. I did my emergent deed and decided that I did not need to be up any longer. I woke up two hours later, and it was still just as dark. I was like, ‘did I not fall back asleep’…I checked my phone clock and sure enough…it was after 7 … however, it was still very much dark outside my windows. I sit up and say my morning prayers and instantly and instinctively roll my eyes. Why? Because in my mind, it should be brighter outside. After all, it is after 7 am.
In a fleeting moment of frustration, I blamed daylight saving time. Instantly remembering the spring and summer nights that caused me to buy blackout curtains so that I could go to bed at a decent hour. However, then I was thinking … dangerous I know … we are about to ‘fall back’, which means that sunrise will be even later. Bedtime will feel like 6 pm instead of 8 or 9 pm.
While my coffee was doing its thing, my mind began to summarize life. How simple and uncomplicated it can be right this minute and within a blink of an eye … uncertainty and chaos appear. How one minute you are fully engulfed in tending to daily chores and the next you are off to the hospital because of an accident. How you leave the doctor office with a solid bill of health, and you then you have a massive heart attack or stroke … thus dying.
Why is this so important to look at? Am I looking at darkness instead of the light? The answers are simple …
We are sitting here today because the rapture did not happen as predicted … again. Scripture states that we will not know the time or place of His return. Nor will we know the time or place of the end of our lease on life. Only God knows these answers. Why is this important? The answer to this question is actually a question. Are you sure that you are going to heaven?
See, had the rapture happened as these false prophets had predicted, I was not worried. I have lots to answer for … do not misunderstand … however, I am not worried in the least about where I will be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush … I am secure that I will be in climate-controlled heaven. But … there are those that I love dearly … that I am not so sure they understand the reality of eternity. The reality of quick life can end. The reality of needing to walk the narrow path to heaven. Hell is real. Hell is HELL. There will be no parties and never-ending fun…it will be torment and anguish. It will be harder than anything you have experienced here on earth, and it will be forever.
The question “If your God is a loving god, then he will let me into heaven because I am good person.”
My God is a loving god. So loving that he allows you to make your own choice. If you choose to not believe and follow him, then he will weep as you take the elevator to hell. Following Christ is not difficult in the sense that you have to do all these things … it is not difficult because when you take you out of the equation and place Him first … even the difficult becomes easy. When you stop worrying about what man thinks and what He thinks … your choices change. When you get off this hell treadmill of what you think is right for one person and realize that they will be held accountable when that time comes …you are not responsible for their choices … then peace is abounding.
Friends, just as quickly as the later sunrises are now in the fall, our lives will end and if you have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, and follow his leading … then you will find yourself in the fiery pits of hell … not by God’s choice…but yours.
Have you ever noticed how quickly fall gets here? Like, one day you wake up to the sunlight is rising at 6:30; then the next day you are rising at 7:30 and the sun has not even crested anywhere. I don’t seem to notice as much in the Spring…the spring sunrise just seems to creep up on me, but this fall one … boy howdy … one day you got dawn’s early light and the next you wonder if it is still oh dark thirty. Am I the only one who feels like this?
This morning I woke up around 5 am the first time. It was still quite dark, as it should be. I did my emergent deed and decided that I did not need to be up any longer. I woke up two hours later, and it was still just as dark. I was like, ‘did I not fall back asleep’…I checked my phone clock and sure enough…it was after 7 … however, it was still very much dark outside my windows. I sit up and say my morning prayers and instantly and instinctively roll my eyes. Why? Because in my mind, it should be brighter outside. After all, it is after 7 am.
In a fleeting moment of frustration, I blamed daylight saving time. Instantly remembering the spring and summer nights that caused me to buy blackout curtains so that I could go to bed at a decent hour. However, then I was thinking … dangerous I know … we are about to ‘fall back’, which means that sunrise will be even later. Bedtime will feel like 6 pm instead of 8 or 9 pm.
While my coffee was doing its thing, my mind began to summarize life. How simple and uncomplicated it can be right this minute and within a blink of an eye … uncertainty and chaos appear. How one minute you are fully engulfed in tending to daily chores and the next you are off to the hospital because of an accident. How you leave the doctor office with a solid bill of health, and you then you have a massive heart attack or stroke … thus dying.
Why is this so important to look at? Am I looking at darkness instead of the light? The answers are simple …
We are sitting here today because the rapture did not happen as predicted … again. Scripture states that we will not know the time or place of His return. Nor will we know the time or place of the end of our lease on life. Only God knows these answers. Why is this important? The answer to this question is actually a question. Are you sure that you are going to heaven?
See, had the rapture happened as these false prophets had predicted, I was not worried. I have lots to answer for … do not misunderstand … however, I am not worried in the least about where I will be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush … I am secure that I will be in climate-controlled heaven. But … there are those that I love dearly … that I am not so sure they understand the reality of eternity. The reality of quick life can end. The reality of needing to walk the narrow path to heaven. Hell is real. Hell is HELL. There will be no parties and never-ending fun…it will be torment and anguish. It will be harder than anything you have experienced here on earth, and it will be forever.
The question “If your God is a loving god, then he will let me into heaven because I am good person.”
My God is a loving god. So loving that he allows you to make your own choice. If you choose to not believe and follow him, then he will weep as you take the elevator to hell. Following Christ is not difficult in the sense that you have to do all these things … it is not difficult because when you take you out of the equation and place Him first … even the difficult becomes easy. When you stop worrying about what man thinks and what He thinks … your choices change. When you get off this hell treadmill of what you think is right for one person and realize that they will be held accountable when that time comes …you are not responsible for their choices … then peace is abounding.
Friends, just as quickly as the later sunrises are now in the fall, our lives will end and if you have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, and follow his leading … then you will find yourself in the fiery pits of hell … not by God’s choice…but yours.
Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
Have you ever noticed how quickly fall gets here? Like, one day you wake up to the sunlight is rising at 6:30; then the next day you are rising at 7:30 and the sun has not even crested anywhere. I don’t seem to notice as much in the Spring…the spring sunrise just seems to creep up on me, but this fall one … boy howdy … one day you got dawn’s early light and the next you wonder if it is still oh dark thirty. Am I the only one who feels like this?
This morning I woke up around 5 am the first time. It was still quite dark, as it should be. I did my emergent deed and decided that I did not need to be up any longer. I woke up two hours later, and it was still just as dark. I was like, ‘did I not fall back asleep’…I checked my phone clock and sure enough…it was after 7 … however, it was still very much dark outside my windows. I sit up and say my morning prayers and instantly and instinctively roll my eyes. Why? Because in my mind, it should be brighter outside. After all, it is after 7 am.
In a fleeting moment of frustration, I blamed daylight saving time. Instantly remembering the spring and summer nights that caused me to buy blackout curtains so that I could go to bed at a decent hour. However, then I was thinking … dangerous I know … we are about to ‘fall back’, which means that sunrise will be even later. Bedtime will feel like 6 pm instead of 8 or 9 pm.
While my coffee was doing its thing, my mind began to summarize life. How simple and uncomplicated it can be right this minute and within a blink of an eye … uncertainty and chaos appear. How one minute you are fully engulfed in tending to daily chores and the next you are off to the hospital because of an accident. How you leave the doctor office with a solid bill of health, and you then you have a massive heart attack or stroke … thus dying.
Why is this so important to look at? Am I looking at darkness instead of the light? The answers are simple …
We are sitting here today because the rapture did not happen as predicted … again. Scripture states that we will not know the time or place of His return. Nor will we know the time or place of the end of our lease on life. Only God knows these answers. Why is this important? The answer to this question is actually a question. Are you sure that you are going to heaven?
See, had the rapture happened as these false prophets had predicted, I was not worried. I have lots to answer for … do not misunderstand … however, I am not worried in the least about where I will be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush … I am secure that I will be in climate-controlled heaven. But … there are those that I love dearly … that I am not so sure they understand the reality of eternity. The reality of quick life can end. The reality of needing to walk the narrow path to heaven. Hell is real. Hell is HELL. There will be no parties and never-ending fun…it will be torment and anguish. It will be harder than anything you have experienced here on earth, and it will be forever.
The question “If your God is a loving god, then he will let me into heaven because I am good person.”
My God is a loving god. So loving that he allows you to make your own choice. If you choose to not believe and follow him, then he will weep as you take the elevator to hell. Following Christ is not difficult in the sense that you have to do all these things … it is not difficult because when you take you out of the equation and place Him first … even the difficult becomes easy. When you stop worrying about what man thinks and what He thinks … your choices change. When you get off this hell treadmill of what you think is right for one person and realize that they will be held accountable when that time comes …you are not responsible for their choices … then peace is abounding.
Friends, just as quickly as the later sunrises are now in the fall, our lives will end and if you have not accepted Jesus as your Savior, and follow his leading … then you will find yourself in the fiery pits of hell … not by God’s choice…but yours.
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