Every day I need Him. Every night I need Him. Regardless of the circumstances, good or bad, He lives in my heart so He is with me wherever I am. Seek Him for yourself because there are many stories of people who have had “near death experiences” some were even clinically dead for more than ten minutes and they saw Him and experienced Heaven before coming back. Eternity is real so make sure that you will have a place there.
The way that Heaven is described by those who were allowed to see it and describe it in the Bible makes our life and the Earth that we call home seem to be just a shadow of what we will see in eternity. People who have been clinically dead and have come back describe a place where a feeling of love infuses everything with the Light of LIfe. The trees and the grass, the flowers and the people who are there, whether they are angels or loved ones who have gone ahead of us, have His Light shining through them. As John wrote in the book of Revelation, “there is no need for the sun or the moon because He is the Light of Life“.
As Jesus said, “I am the Light of the world.” God’s love is more physical in His presence and you can feel it like you feel the sun on your skin, but even more substantial than that. When God shows you a vision, whether it is after you “die” for a time or in a dream, you can see colors that you can’t see here on Earth, and even they are infused with His light. God does love each of us more deeply than we can possibly know, but it bothers Him because we don’t see His love or experience it here. That is why most of us try to fill that void in our being with other “things,” all of which do not satisfy the longing that we feel.
Jesus showed the love of God to the whole world while He was teaching and healing during His time with the disciples. Almost every time He healed someone, it made the priests angry because He was doing it on the Sabbath or in proximity to the Temple. Sometimes they would find Him with sinners and tax collectors and that’s when He told them that “those who are sick need a physician not those who are well“.
Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness through Jesus Christ and your eternal Life is assured.
It surprises me sometimes that I think of doing something completely out of character for me. It actually scares me when this happens because many times it is an action against someone I love and I don’t ever want to hurt my son or my wife or even my pets! But when this thought or feeling comes into my mind it is really scary. Why did it come into my mind? Would I actually do something like this?
When you read a book that has a group of people who are trying to do something fantastic, it seems there is always at least one character that just needs a little push or nudge in the wrong direction to cause a catastrophic failure that will take someone’s life. That is the problem with our “sin nature”. Each of us is only one nudge away from snapping and becoming some truly evil person.
Could a Christian do something like this? Satan will plant the thoughts in your mind but if you are mature in your faith you will recognize it and your Spirit will help you to resist it. On the other hand, people who are not saved or just think they are saved don’t have the Holy Spirit living inside to help us stop those thoughts. They may have a conscience that is telling them it is wrong but they don’t have a helper to give them the strength to truly resist that impulse.
I once thought that I could make it without the Holy Spirit and I tried, but it didn’t work because I could not control myself and my thoughts and actions without the Holy Spirit. Many people think that their conscience is the Holy Spirit and it isn’t because you can just push it away. Pride and covetousness will cause you to think that you are able to do things that you can’t do. You will want something or you crave more money to get something and this happens to Christians too.
You need to study about Jesus and seek Him to be your Savior and Lord. His ways and His teachings are the only way to become better than you were because of the Holy Spirit coming into your heart and changing your nature. The sin nature is still there but it is deactivated and the longer you study the Bible, the more strength you will get from God’s Word. I thought, before I truly gave my heart to Jesus, that I could never read the Bible because I couldn’t make sense of it. You have to have the Holy Spirit living inside you so you can make sense of it and get the wisdom you need from it.
Don’t push the prompting of the Holy Spirit away when you feel it. You might never feel it again and it would be sad that you missed becoming a Christian because you felt that you weren’t ready yet. You don’t get ready, Jesus knows when you are ready and He touches your heart to bring you to Himself.
Many people are going through some tough times. We have many on our prayer list who are going through treatments for cancers of different types. Some of those treatments are painful and debilitating in and of themselves even without the disease that is being treated. There are others in the world that we may not know about who are having to deal with pain from pinched nerves in their necks and their spine. The problem with the “treatment” for those is that it usually makes the problem worse in the long run. The same goes for the cancer treatments which usually make your quality of life worse from the first treatment.
As Christians we are supposed to “count it all joy” regardless of the pain that we experience. Many of us live with some kind of pain or other problem that causes us to dread getting up in the morning to go about another day. Our friends and relatives don’t understand what is bothering us so we don’t tell them how we feel on most days. We just go through the day with whatever it is and if you are like me you just pray that God will give you the strength to get through the day today. Then that prayer is repeated tomorrow and the next day. I don’t tell my wife how I feel because my pain is…well it’s my pain and she won’t get it. So I keep it between me and God.
Disability does hurt. It hurts because I can’t do many of the things that I would like to do like go hunting or fishing. My balance is gone and there have been many times I have nearly fallen in the shower or when I bend over to get something off the floor. Having your balance gone doesn’t sound like a disability and most people only lose their balance occasionally. I live with it every day, all day.
I am not writing this to complain, just venting a little. I have seen the looks that people give me because I don’t “look” disabled.
God does allow things to happen to us in order to bring about His purposes. He gives each of us a talent or an ability that He knows we will use and sometimes it takes an affliction of some kind to make us use what He has given to us. I have never written as much as I have since this came on me. I thank God that my affliction has allowed me to point some people to know my Savior, Jesus Christ.
I began this blog before I became disabled but my early writing was more world-weary or about some other things that were happening at the time. This site didn’t become a true witness about Jesus Christ until I became sick just before Thanksgiving in 2012. It has been twelve years now and God has seen me and my family through many trials since then. I pray that this site has blessed those who read it.
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