“I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME”

Dec. 8, 2013

“I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME”

I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME, 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 Miller)

FOR WHOM MY SOUL YEARNS How sweet the sound “I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME” that tells me that I have completely left the cares of this world, all in the hands of my Savior Who has taken on that responsibility as the psalmist tells us in Psalm 55:22 to “Cast our cares on the LORD and he will sustain us; he will never let the righteous be shaken.”

Now my friends the key words here I need you to focus on is HE WILL NEVER LET THE RIGHTEOUS BE SHAKEN and as a child of God “The righteous are His faithful who “live by faith.” And of course “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17

Righteousness, faith, and knowing God’s Word, each essential to the life expectancy of the other. So if we take one of those elements out it would be a real catastrophe. Mark 4:19 tells us “But the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the WORD, making it unfruitful.”

So my friends this lets me know before I CAN FIX MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME we must dissociate ourselves from the Things of this world that do not center our attention on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, starting with what we watch on TV, the internet, what we read, and how we spend, and what we spend the resources that God gives us on.

Friends if we are serious about our Salvation there must be a deep PASSION FROM WITHIN, a PASSION for RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH, and a PASSION for GOD”S WORD and my friends this PASSION can only come from a transformation from what this world deems as acceptable, too THINGS ABOVE which can only happen through the power of God’s spirit.

Paul tells us “our citizenship is in heaven” So as Christians our minds must stay on things not of this world, as our PASSION stays on what my God has prepared for me. One of His promises comes from John 14:1-4  “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me, In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you……that where I am, there you may be also…..”

“THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.” Oh what an awesome promise this is why “I HAVE FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME” Because God’s promises tells me This world is not my home my friends we are just passing through.

And as children of  THE KING, we should always feel like aliens, or strangers in a foreign country. The Psalmist tells us in Ps. 119:19  “I am a stranger on earth” But though we travel as temporary residents, we still have a mandate as God’s chosen to tell others of the good news of A NEW HOME for all who believe.

For “Those who accept the teachings of GOD’S WORD will not be wholly ignorant concerning the HEAVENLY ABODE.” (White) And yet, “eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9.

“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. 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 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 and what it has to offer me. I FOCUS WITH ALL THE PASSION THAT IS WITHIN ME “TO FIXED MY MIND ON ANOTHER TIME”

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY