These are the achingly sweet days of the year.
The last of the lightness, summer solstice is upon us. After dealing with anxiety a few years back I was affected by light, and dark, and made more aware of the planetary cycles of the earth around the sun. It had a personal effect on me.
Darkness lost its coziness, and light became hope filling.
So June had a special place of sonder for me.
I cling to beautiful moments, and that is my downfall. They are too fleeting.
I remember when I was a child going to Bible School for the weekdays close following the end of the public school year. Every summer we attended.
The birds were always at the peak of their songs, the grass was greener than it would be any other time of year. The skies were blue, and June clouds, fluffy and sheeplike were always sailing them.
The sun was warm, hot in the afternoons when we played dodgeball, kickball, and Red-Rover.
The mornings we sat in the cool church basement with small dull scissors and glue, the smell of damp and crafts still lingers in my mind.
We sang "Deep and Wide," "The Countdown Song," "I'm in the Lord's Army!"
Over and over.
The flannelgraph told the story from the Bible, the paper doll characters acting out the miracles of Jesus, Daniel in the lions' den, Elijah and the widow, Moses and the Hebrew Children.
A brown sack held a peanut butter sandwich. Orange drink from the dairy.
Bible memory time----how many verses did I learn, year after year? They are still with me.
In the afternoon there was a missionary story. We learned all sorts of exciting things about the world. We saw how Jesus changed people completely, wholly, fully.
More songs, more play, a snack. Driving home in the hot car (no A/C those days!) and sleeping hard until the next day.
June days. Bible School is a wonderful memory. One wonders how many lives were shaped by those five short days a year.
Mine was. There took root in me a love for Jesus and his ways while I was still a very young child. I haven't left Him, and He hasn't left me.
My journey has been full of peaks and valleys (like all of us!) but I've had that inner peace of knowing my LORD through it all.
I don't have a shocking story. The LORD didn't save me from a life of waste. I know that I would be a different person for not the Lord's presence. I am His, and HE is mine.
I have the steady, peaceful, quiet testimony of the truth of God's Word in my life. All of my life.
And I know something that few do: IT'S NOT ABOUT THIS LIFE!
It's about the next one, the one that lasts for an eternity.
Because I know the importance of this eternal existence I will not stop talking about, writing about, posting about, living this gospel truth. Jesus is what it's all about.
And if you don't know this, you need to. I beg you! No one is aware of their last moment, and if you breathe your last and don't know Jesus you will have lost everything. Regret is eternal.
Please follow Christ.
We can't go back to Bible School days. Does anyone do Bible school like that anymore?
But Jesus is the same, yesterday, today, forever. Always loving, always forgiving, always speaking to your heart about His truth.
Accept Him now.
I realize that becoming a believer is a spiritual transaction. Spiritual eyes must be opened. I realize that God opens them. If you have any inkling of wanting to repent and believe the Holy Spirit is "knocking" at the door of your heart.
Invite Him in.
You could die in a car accident this morning, a plane this afternoon, a heart attack this evening! You could be diagnosed with incurable cancer.
Don't face the next moments without Jesus. He gives us the hope and purpose, the reason for life we need to face this existence.
There is no other religion that compares, and Jesus Himself said that He is the only way. All other religions are false. Have you found eternal peace apart from Jesus?
No. It's impossible.
Even "Christianity" has been perverted by the New Age beliefs, traditions that crept in from paganism, false doctrines, bad Bible translations....
It's up to you to distill the truth about Jesus, and allow Him to guide you on the path of obedience to His Word.
I WILL harp on this. Day in, day out. As a prophecy watcher (God's Words always come to pass!) I see signs of the these times which denote the "last days."
These are the last days.
Israel exists again. (The dry bones of Ezekiel have come to life!)
The New World Order/One World Government is in the works and has the majority of the world under its power already. (Globalism, climate concerns, vaccinations, socialism, elite money managers, the Illuminati)
The earth is groaning. (Mass die-offs, ocean pollution, incoming space events, chemtrails, increased earthquake activity, weather events)
The church is giving in to apostasy. (Moral failure, disobedience, selfishness, hatred)
Signs in the heavens are telling us it's over! (The Gospel in the Stars, planetary movement, sun activity)
We don't have long. It could be days, months, years, decades or even centuries, but it's all happening so fast I don't think it's long. At least it may not be long for you or me.
Cancers are affecting half of the population! Famine is rearing its deadly head. Diseases are morphing into horrible, untreatable monsters. Will we lose the bees?
That question concerns me. You do know that if we lose bees our lives will alter completely. Yes. It's true. Bees are that important to our lifestyle. They pollinate fully a third of what we eat.
Do I sit here and worry about all of this?
Of course not. I know I belong to the King of the Universe.
If you do not belong to Him, you SHOULD be worrying. You're living your "best life now" and that's no mistake. It won't get any better than this.
You need to turn to Christ. You need Him on so many levels----help for each day, for each challenge, for hope, for the future, for conquering death, for eternity.
Don't wait a moment.
Pray this prayer: (for help! You can pray what you want---)
Lord God, Please forgive me. I am a sinner. I need you to wash away my sin by your blood shed on the cross. You paid the punishment for my sin, and I believe you did that for me. I place my trust and hope in you, and I want to become your child. Please fill me with your Holy Spirit, and give me the strength to follow you each day. Thank you for saving my soul! Thank you for making my spirit to be born again!
Thank you for loving me, for guiding me, for saving me. Help me to turn away from sin, to repent. In JESUS' PRECIOUS NAME,
AMEN!
The last of the lightness, summer solstice is upon us. After dealing with anxiety a few years back I was affected by light, and dark, and made more aware of the planetary cycles of the earth around the sun. It had a personal effect on me.
Darkness lost its coziness, and light became hope filling.
So June had a special place of sonder for me.
I cling to beautiful moments, and that is my downfall. They are too fleeting.
I remember when I was a child going to Bible School for the weekdays close following the end of the public school year. Every summer we attended.
The birds were always at the peak of their songs, the grass was greener than it would be any other time of year. The skies were blue, and June clouds, fluffy and sheeplike were always sailing them.
The sun was warm, hot in the afternoons when we played dodgeball, kickball, and Red-Rover.
The mornings we sat in the cool church basement with small dull scissors and glue, the smell of damp and crafts still lingers in my mind.
We sang "Deep and Wide," "The Countdown Song," "I'm in the Lord's Army!"
Over and over.
The flannelgraph told the story from the Bible, the paper doll characters acting out the miracles of Jesus, Daniel in the lions' den, Elijah and the widow, Moses and the Hebrew Children.
A brown sack held a peanut butter sandwich. Orange drink from the dairy.
Bible memory time----how many verses did I learn, year after year? They are still with me.
In the afternoon there was a missionary story. We learned all sorts of exciting things about the world. We saw how Jesus changed people completely, wholly, fully.
More songs, more play, a snack. Driving home in the hot car (no A/C those days!) and sleeping hard until the next day.
June days. Bible School is a wonderful memory. One wonders how many lives were shaped by those five short days a year.
Mine was. There took root in me a love for Jesus and his ways while I was still a very young child. I haven't left Him, and He hasn't left me.
My journey has been full of peaks and valleys (like all of us!) but I've had that inner peace of knowing my LORD through it all.
I don't have a shocking story. The LORD didn't save me from a life of waste. I know that I would be a different person for not the Lord's presence. I am His, and HE is mine.
I have the steady, peaceful, quiet testimony of the truth of God's Word in my life. All of my life.
And I know something that few do: IT'S NOT ABOUT THIS LIFE!
It's about the next one, the one that lasts for an eternity.
Because I know the importance of this eternal existence I will not stop talking about, writing about, posting about, living this gospel truth. Jesus is what it's all about.
And if you don't know this, you need to. I beg you! No one is aware of their last moment, and if you breathe your last and don't know Jesus you will have lost everything. Regret is eternal.
Please follow Christ.
We can't go back to Bible School days. Does anyone do Bible school like that anymore?
But Jesus is the same, yesterday, today, forever. Always loving, always forgiving, always speaking to your heart about His truth.
Accept Him now.
I realize that becoming a believer is a spiritual transaction. Spiritual eyes must be opened. I realize that God opens them. If you have any inkling of wanting to repent and believe the Holy Spirit is "knocking" at the door of your heart.
Invite Him in.
You could die in a car accident this morning, a plane this afternoon, a heart attack this evening! You could be diagnosed with incurable cancer.
Don't face the next moments without Jesus. He gives us the hope and purpose, the reason for life we need to face this existence.
There is no other religion that compares, and Jesus Himself said that He is the only way. All other religions are false. Have you found eternal peace apart from Jesus?
No. It's impossible.
Even "Christianity" has been perverted by the New Age beliefs, traditions that crept in from paganism, false doctrines, bad Bible translations....
It's up to you to distill the truth about Jesus, and allow Him to guide you on the path of obedience to His Word.
I WILL harp on this. Day in, day out. As a prophecy watcher (God's Words always come to pass!) I see signs of the these times which denote the "last days."
These are the last days.
Israel exists again. (The dry bones of Ezekiel have come to life!)
The New World Order/One World Government is in the works and has the majority of the world under its power already. (Globalism, climate concerns, vaccinations, socialism, elite money managers, the Illuminati)
The earth is groaning. (Mass die-offs, ocean pollution, incoming space events, chemtrails, increased earthquake activity, weather events)
The church is giving in to apostasy. (Moral failure, disobedience, selfishness, hatred)
Signs in the heavens are telling us it's over! (The Gospel in the Stars, planetary movement, sun activity)
We don't have long. It could be days, months, years, decades or even centuries, but it's all happening so fast I don't think it's long. At least it may not be long for you or me.
Cancers are affecting half of the population! Famine is rearing its deadly head. Diseases are morphing into horrible, untreatable monsters. Will we lose the bees?
That question concerns me. You do know that if we lose bees our lives will alter completely. Yes. It's true. Bees are that important to our lifestyle. They pollinate fully a third of what we eat.
Do I sit here and worry about all of this?
Of course not. I know I belong to the King of the Universe.
If you do not belong to Him, you SHOULD be worrying. You're living your "best life now" and that's no mistake. It won't get any better than this.
You need to turn to Christ. You need Him on so many levels----help for each day, for each challenge, for hope, for the future, for conquering death, for eternity.
Don't wait a moment.
Pray this prayer: (for help! You can pray what you want---)
Lord God, Please forgive me. I am a sinner. I need you to wash away my sin by your blood shed on the cross. You paid the punishment for my sin, and I believe you did that for me. I place my trust and hope in you, and I want to become your child. Please fill me with your Holy Spirit, and give me the strength to follow you each day. Thank you for saving my soul! Thank you for making my spirit to be born again!
Thank you for loving me, for guiding me, for saving me. Help me to turn away from sin, to repent. In JESUS' PRECIOUS NAME,
AMEN!
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