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| A child always reminds us.....that love is forever! |
Jesus spoke for His disciples' hearts to not be troubled. In believing in God and His Son is paramount to our receiving salvation by faith.
In sending His only Son, we have salvation, a family (the children of God) and a forever home with God!
And in that work of the Cross, Jesus set us free to live in the presence of the Father!
In the past few days, we had our grand-daughter over and what a delight to laugh with her. We enjoy her company so much. She is a ray of light to us as well as to many others. In our time together, we would ready ourselves with shoes on feet and march outside to be visited by a rain drop or two and a breeze of wind possibly, but the sun was shining and nothing was keeping us indoors. We stepped out the back door, and she took my hand, and I took hers, and we made our way to the tree swing of course. Now the swing she swings on looks nothing like the one in the picture above, but thought of our holding hands. Yes, children hold our hands for awhile and our hearts forever. AND our clutching hands flooded my mind of the memories of those former years. It brought memories of our daughter when she was this very age and how she wanted to hold hands.
As children are welcomed to a couple expecting the child, so God is also expecting His family. He sent His Son that many would believe in Him and for those who do, Jesus said He would prepare a place for us. The way is found in Jesus and it is by faith we see with spiritual eyes the heaven that awaits our arrival!
But there will be many who choose not to go. They choose not to obey the Father of Heaven, they choose not to receive the Son and have the Helper who guides our way through this life to the next. We are to expect Jesus' return. We are to look up and pray.
God has greater for us in His kingdom of heaven. It is a place prepared. When we take each other's hand we go into our future and understand that it has arrived.
If we, my husband and I chose to retire, we would not really know the full life that God has for us. If we chose to "be alone" ....we would certainly miss out of the greatest gift we have since the birth of our own daughter, her marriage and that wonderful birth of our grand-daughter.
We experience rich lives when we can hold each life in our hands and speak God's truth into their hearing. We can experience that richness each time we desire to spend with family here now in this lifetime. Oh, but the greatness of the life to spend an eternity with our family with Jesus in the presence of the Father is a grand thing to think on.
The future has arrived and we are come to the Father through Jesus. He is that life for which we longed for and have seen come to pass in our lives. May we, my husband and I encourage you that taking the hand of that grand-child is worthwhile. We focus on giving all that the Holy Spirit is given to us as we walk this daily life into eternity. Our acts are those that are Christ-centered, and the pursuit of the family is foremost in the mind of God the Father. As kingdom people we are child-like not childish. And within our grand-daughter we find someone who loves us, and her trust is knowing that we will care for her all of her life. Our interactions with her keep us remembering that our Father in heaven desires for us to reproduce the qualities of that character we see from Jesus that will build and sustain those wonderful relationships.
We have learned when we make room for others, we always have other's in our lives. We made room for many, although some refused, but we still seek to speak truth in the light of God's word to others we meet, and pray for those that God sends our way. And we pray also that others will know Jesus as we have learned as the child to the Father.
Yes, we enjoyed so many wonderful moments the past few days, and they are forever etched in our memory files where life is filled with joy, laughter and a song or two from the heart. Our grand-daughter is precious to us. And Jesus is precious to us too! Our commitment in this moment is that we love by choice, prefer God's will to our own, and that we boldly confess Jesus with all our family and those we come in contact with. We choose not to be wrapped in religion, and we guard against it. We pray the Holy Spirit to have His way in our lives and in our home.
In these past few days, we encouraged faith in our grand-daughter, reminded her of the Lord's Supper and to pray. Her zeal was evident, her speech was declaring glory for Jesus and her heart was set on keeping that conversation going all through out the day and evening.
I pray our motives are clear, that our hearts are set for the eternity with the Father, walking with Jesus and ready for His soon return.
Father has a place for you if you have chosen Him. If you have not, choose Him, Jesus, today. Choose life everlasting in the bosom of the Father. Choose to Worship Jesus and give Him all your devotion and much love. It is He WHO rescued us from evil and from repeatedly falling into sin. He has made us His own. And may He hold your hand and cause you to enjoy that life of the child that you so deserved to enjoy but did not get too. Enjoy those kids, and those grand-kids and understand God gives us many examples of devoted and trusting love and when we choose to do the same we find our lives rich with love and peace in the presence of the loving Father. Amen.
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