How beautiful is a word in season that is brought
to one’s recollection. To be reminded that regardless of where you find
yourself, “if there is breath there is hope”. Today is another funeral, someone
I knew well, someone I shared the gospel with, a man aged 48, dead with no more
“breath” feeding his carnal organs. He has moved on and now he will stand trial
and await his judgement. Oxygen no longer needed to survive, with his soul
alive and his awareness of it as if he never died. The eternal phase of his
existence has been realised and no more questioning of it, it is as real to him
as me sipping on my espresso as it will be for each and everyone when
we breath our last regardless of our take on life after death. We have no say
in the matter as we are the created and we exist because of God’s will and
purpose. He is the director of His production and it’s up to us to be the best
we can be within our specified roles. But it is critical that we find Christ
and call out to him so that we may be forgiven for our sins, so that when we
move on to chapter two of our lives we will escape God’s judgement and only
because Christ has already taken the punishment for it. That is if we have
fallen to our knees and cried out to Him with an urgency of desperation acknowledging
our sin before a holy God, in order to find His forgives and escape the
ultimate eternal sentence, the Lake of Fire! But this can only ever be achieved
in this phase of our existences.
Regardless of who you are or where you fit in, you
are just a cry away from the saving and healing hand of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It rather remarkable, how often God is willing to come to the rescue of his
children. Then again is it, or do I just feel like that because I reason with
the mind of a man? If God is for his children, who can actually come against
them? To catch glimpses of God’s brilliance as he allows certain weakness to
play themselves out in my life is rather incredible. It is all about the
lessons of life. Sadly many are driven by a different barometer, power, wealth
or success which in turn brings about different results, paraphernalia for this
life and not much more. Whereas those who are driven by the Fathers will, even
if the attempt is pathetic at times is all about a perfect treasure that will last
for eternity. It’s God’s goodness that leads an individual to the bridge of
repentance and yet it’s up to the individual to act out in faith in order to
cross that void. Yes, yes and yes; it’s God who gives us all a differing
measure of faith. He is the one who hands out the portions, but faith remains
dead without works. Sadly faith so often seems to be surrounded by delusional
reasoning or even worse by the pretender.
We all only get one crack at this and then the
opportunity is dead. Just like Quinton died at 48, his time ran out before it
possibly should have, nevertheless none of us know when we will frantically gasp
for our last breath, assumption could be catastrophically detrimental to our
eternities.
Today is the day of salvation, make it count…
Signing off
Tyrone
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