Oct. 9, 2014
MY FRIENDS, WORK TILL DAWN, FOR WE ARE APPRENTICE FOR OUR HEAVENLY ABODE!!
“Human language is inadequate to describe the reward of the righteous. It will be known only to those who behold it. No finite 
mind can comprehend the glory of the Paradise of God. In the Bible the inheritance of the saved is called “a country.” Hebrews 11:14-16. (NKJV)
There the heavenly Shepherd leads His flock to fountains of living waters. God’s people, so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home. “My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in heaven secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.”
“Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, neither wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. “They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; . . . My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.” Isaiah 32:18; 60:18; 65:21, 22. (E.G. White Heaven, Great Controversy)
My friends as I look at the world today, I ask, what do I thrust for daily. My Savior say’s “whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14 (NIV)
So today, I realize as long as I am on this earth death will eventually come to all. So today my focus shifts “to the giver of life” I 
now have only one passion and that is to set my mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth”
In addition, I “fixed my mind on another time” [and another place] and here I mean to stand until God gives me more light, and that is Today, TODAY, and TODAY, until He comes, and I see Him for whom my soul yearns.” (William Milller)
FOR WHOM MY SOUL YEARNS, or who I have a passion to be with, for “I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME” that tells me that I have completely left the cares of this world, into the hands of my Savior who has taken on that responsibility as He guides us on our journey.
Psalm 55:22 tells us to “Cast our cares on the LORD and he will sustain us; he will never let the righteous be shaken.” So I ask 
you oh Lord to “Come and fill my heart with hope, Come and fill my life with love Come and fill my soul with strength to carry on Because from here the climb is steep, [and the journey] is long.
So Come and fill my days with dreams Empty me of all the empty things [of this world] That I hold onto [So please dear Lord] Come and fill my heart with you.” (Avalon) and only you and never let my mind wonder away from the precepts that prepares your Children.
Yes that prepares us For “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (ESV) As children of THE KING, we should always feel like aliens, or strangers in a foreign country, for we yearn to be with our Father the King. Ps. 119:19 tells us “I am a stranger on earth”
Though we live as temporary residents, as God’s chosen here on earth, our mandate is to tell the world of the good news of a 
NEW HOME for all who believe and endure and are willing to be transformed into the image of the one who gave it all for our Salvation.
“Conception unites the two thoughts of being with Christ and of service for Christ. This blending is definitely set forth in the last chapter of Revelation where we read of ‘those who serve Him, and see His face.”
Here the life of contemplation and the life of active service are welded together as being not only compatible, but absolutely necessary for completeness. But remember that if there is to be service there, the exercising ground is here. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WE ARE IN THIS WORLD FOR UNLESS IT IS TO APPRENTICE US FOR HEAVEN. Life on earth is a bewilderment unless we are being trained here for a nobler work which lies beyond the grave.” (Alexander Maclaren)
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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