The Holy One calls to me this morning. Too much is happening too fast to even begin to try to control things. Even if I could think past the moment I am in, I know it's best if I don't.
God doesn't just give grace, He IS grace. Meaning there is no end, no limit, no point in the game where we will ever be without His Grace. However, we cannot receive the fullness of His grace until the moment it is necessary. To try to project myself into a future unknown is unwise. To try to decide on a plan of evasive action before the situations unfold is a waste of brain power.
Taking one day at a time does require a deep trust in my Lord, but then He knows the end from the beginning and I don't. The Holy One presses in with, "Remember what you already know."
As the circumstances of life and death come into focus, faith gets challenged. Faith in: the One who inhabits eternity; faith in the one who came and laid down His life that we might live; faith in the One who conquered death and rose again; Faith in that One is real or not, and this is where the rubber meets the road. All throughout my life, He has been faithful, and I trust Him to be the same today regardless of what I may have to face.
The Word of my God is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. To "remember" is to hold fast to His Word no matter what the circumstances of life. To stand firm in what I know and believe to be true.
Death is such an unnatural state for eternal creatures like us, humans. We were created by an Eternal Creator, whose plan it was that we never die, and that we inhabit eternity with Him. Death is an unacceptable state and we are not wired to deal with it. Even so, the fall happened, death entered paradise and we all reel in agony as we have to face that inevitable day of our flesh demise.
Facing human mortality happens every day. Jesus came and walked among us to open our eyes to His ultimate victory over this tragic and unnatural state that was left as a legacy for every human since the fall.
No one is more moved by what the thought of death does to the human heart than Jesus. When Jesus, the God of all Creation wrapped Himself in flesh and came to walk among His Creation, the reality of death was all around Him.
The Gospel accounts of His life reveal His reaction to death. He over ruled it. Not only did He heal and deliver people from those things that are the lead-in to death, but on various occasions, in significant symbolic gestures of signs and wonders that are His to perform, He called people back from death to life here on earth.
The veil between the temporal and the eternal is very thin for a believer. As Paul said, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." And what a glorious place to imagine. To exhale here and inhale in the very Presence of the One who called each and every life into existence is beyond our wildest imagination.
Our human life and the adventure it represents, is wild and crazy. It is full of mountain top highs and deep valley lows. The promise of our Savior is that regardless of what the adventure brings, Jesus will never leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews 13:5). Having come to earth in a flesh body, Jesus felt pain and temptation and even death.
The mind blowing fact of His life is that He was raised from the dead and in possession of a new, imperishable body. People saw Him. People touched Him. The grave could not hold Him. His physical body was tortured beyond recognition, yet He was raised up Glorious, as will those of us who believe in who He is and what He did.
We who find our lives in the life of our Savior, will be given a new body, a Heavenly body that is imperishable. I Corinthians 15:53, "For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality". Fear of the unknown can overwhelm us as we face up to some of those once in a (human) lifetime experiences.
I am so thankful the Holy One calls me to pause and remember what I already know. I am not alone. He will never leave me nor forsake me. (Heb 13:5). This is the promise of my Savior, Jesus Christ. He has spoken to the point that "Pitiful is the man who is saved but only trusts Me for the last moment upon exit from the earth realm. I have so much more I desire to give him throughout all his days upon the earth." Trusting the Lord in each situation we encounter over the course of our earthly life, makes trusting Him at translation that much easier.
This is a hard part of life's journey for me, but I am not alone.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
God doesn't just give grace, He IS grace. Meaning there is no end, no limit, no point in the game where we will ever be without His Grace. However, we cannot receive the fullness of His grace until the moment it is necessary. To try to project myself into a future unknown is unwise. To try to decide on a plan of evasive action before the situations unfold is a waste of brain power.
Taking one day at a time does require a deep trust in my Lord, but then He knows the end from the beginning and I don't. The Holy One presses in with, "Remember what you already know."
As the circumstances of life and death come into focus, faith gets challenged. Faith in: the One who inhabits eternity; faith in the one who came and laid down His life that we might live; faith in the One who conquered death and rose again; Faith in that One is real or not, and this is where the rubber meets the road. All throughout my life, He has been faithful, and I trust Him to be the same today regardless of what I may have to face.
The Word of my God is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. To "remember" is to hold fast to His Word no matter what the circumstances of life. To stand firm in what I know and believe to be true.
Death is such an unnatural state for eternal creatures like us, humans. We were created by an Eternal Creator, whose plan it was that we never die, and that we inhabit eternity with Him. Death is an unacceptable state and we are not wired to deal with it. Even so, the fall happened, death entered paradise and we all reel in agony as we have to face that inevitable day of our flesh demise.
Facing human mortality happens every day. Jesus came and walked among us to open our eyes to His ultimate victory over this tragic and unnatural state that was left as a legacy for every human since the fall.
No one is more moved by what the thought of death does to the human heart than Jesus. When Jesus, the God of all Creation wrapped Himself in flesh and came to walk among His Creation, the reality of death was all around Him.
The Gospel accounts of His life reveal His reaction to death. He over ruled it. Not only did He heal and deliver people from those things that are the lead-in to death, but on various occasions, in significant symbolic gestures of signs and wonders that are His to perform, He called people back from death to life here on earth.
The veil between the temporal and the eternal is very thin for a believer. As Paul said, "to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." And what a glorious place to imagine. To exhale here and inhale in the very Presence of the One who called each and every life into existence is beyond our wildest imagination.
Our human life and the adventure it represents, is wild and crazy. It is full of mountain top highs and deep valley lows. The promise of our Savior is that regardless of what the adventure brings, Jesus will never leave us nor forsake us. (Hebrews 13:5). Having come to earth in a flesh body, Jesus felt pain and temptation and even death.
The mind blowing fact of His life is that He was raised from the dead and in possession of a new, imperishable body. People saw Him. People touched Him. The grave could not hold Him. His physical body was tortured beyond recognition, yet He was raised up Glorious, as will those of us who believe in who He is and what He did.
We who find our lives in the life of our Savior, will be given a new body, a Heavenly body that is imperishable. I Corinthians 15:53, "For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality". Fear of the unknown can overwhelm us as we face up to some of those once in a (human) lifetime experiences.
I am so thankful the Holy One calls me to pause and remember what I already know. I am not alone. He will never leave me nor forsake me. (Heb 13:5). This is the promise of my Savior, Jesus Christ. He has spoken to the point that "Pitiful is the man who is saved but only trusts Me for the last moment upon exit from the earth realm. I have so much more I desire to give him throughout all his days upon the earth." Trusting the Lord in each situation we encounter over the course of our earthly life, makes trusting Him at translation that much easier.
This is a hard part of life's journey for me, but I am not alone.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
