Remember Who is in charge!

A while back, my eldest son and his family were involved in an accident. They were broad-sided by a loaded lumber delivery truck, not too far from their home. Their car was knocked sideways, spinning, across the street, and up into someone's yard. My son had both knees partially dislocated. His baby, 1 1/2 years old, bit through her tongue from the impact. Blood was pouring out of her mouth, and for a while, we thought she might lose part of her tomgue. His wife, 8 months pregnant, was hit so hard that she didn't immediately realize she was in labor. As any mother will tell you, that was some intense pain, to be able to disguise birthing pains. Her baby (another granddaughter, thanks God!) was born at 4:45am, the next morning, bearing a diagonal bruise from the seatbelt!

I was in even greater shock than would otherwise have been the case, because not 2 weeks previously, my son had told me he'd come to the conclusion that God did not exist...

I know I've done a lot of really dumb things in my life. Often, God will give me a whallop, upside the head (as we used to say) to let me know that a change of direction was indicated. Usually, I'm not so hard-headed that I don't take the hint...

I ask these two favors of everyone;

First - examine your life. Is there a message that God is trying to make you aware of?

Second - pray for everybody (my son included). We all need God in our lives.

God loves us all so much that He allows us to say "no" to Him, to our eternal peril. Many choose to keep that which is temporary and worth nothing, and pay for it with that which is eternal and worth everything.


"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
>>>>>-Mark 8:36 KJV-

See you in Paradise!

Your Ally

One of the very worst feelings is that you are alone against danger. Satan loves it when that feeling hits you, knowing that you are at your lowest level of spiritual strength.

Of course, this is when all the doubts creep back in.
-Does God really know just how bad I've been?
-Did I really mean it, when I was saved?
-But I've sinned since then, doesn't that negate the
.whole thing? etc. etc.
.
Almost any question can hit you with doubts, you wouldn't be human, otherwise. The Devil knows just how to turn the pressure up and keep you reeling.

Why is this? He knows if you are suffering from doubt, you are not an effective witness for Jesus. The less you witness, the less likely it is that someone else will be influenced by you for God. Your testimony just might be the key to their understanding of their need for Christ. Without it, that individual might never come to the Lord, and Lucifer does not want any of us in heaven!

Not that he loves us, you understand. He hates us because we can go to heaven to be with God, and he cannot. It is very important that we remember, as much as the Devil hates us, he hates God worse. Keeping us out of heaven denies us to our Lord, who made us, and loves us so much that He sent His Son to die for us. There is no other love that can compare to this!

So what do you do when you are bottomed-out? When all your reserves are totally spent, and you feel so alone you can't even muster up the energy to even look up?

That is the time to remember what Jesus said to us in Mat 28:20 "...and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world. Amen."

Keep your head up! With Jesus as your ally, who can stand against you?

See you again soon, in Paradise.