Life is full of adjustments…you just hafta deal with them.”
–Lou Bradshaw (Ace High)
“And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.”
–Matthew 10:38 (HCSB)
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Have you heard some of the complete nonsense coming from the mouths of pseudo-leaders? Some of the things they are saying are completely absurd. I guess absurdity knows no end. People are listening and being duped. There is a sense of delusion floating through the country. People are losing hope and are grasping at outright lies and absurdities. When I was a kid I used to wonder how in the world people would believe what the Antichrist would say. But looking at what I’m seeing now it wouldn’t take much.
Vision propels us. People look forward and are motivated primarily by hope. People now, instead of working hard, instead of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps are clamoring for more, more, more. More of what? They don’t know they just want more. Achieving the dream is no longer necessary, they wanted it handed to them on a platter, and a silver one no less. People tend to focus on the blessings of the moment. Realize that those blessings soon fade. And they want another one.
What have you thought recently about heaven? How far in the future is it in your mind? Folks don’t think much of heaven. It has been said that people don’t think of heaven because that requires one to think of death and if they think of death then their happiness will be destroyed. But folks, look at the hope of heaven. Death isn’t an obstacle, it is a gateway. But then, we are too preoccupied with being happy here.
We search for satisfaction, here, in the now, on this earth. We don’t realize that this earth offers no real satisfaction. That idea is another one of the devil’s deceptions. True meaning and happiness in this life are subject to meaning and happiness in the next. Ted Dekker wrote, “It is by fixing our eyes on the light of eternity that we see clearly the pleasures of this life.”
To think of heaven should bring hope and expectation, not despair and glumness. Think about heaven. Life is about heaven. As the Lord prepares a home for us, so we should also be preparing ourselves to see it and get ready to live in it. Heaven is the great vision and pleasure. God is there. The Holy Spirit, the Comforter, eases the path between this life and the next. In that process one of the greatest gifts He offers is that of hope.
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There is a moment of celebration to be taken. On my website yesterday was posted my 1000th blog. Can you imagine?
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This day in the Texas Revolution: King, Ward and the Texas attempt to fall back to Victoria.