“FOR WE ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES”

Aug. 10, 2014

“FOR WE ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES”

My friends we “do not know what tomorrow will bring [or] what our life is? For [WE] ARE A MIST THAT APPEARS FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES. James 4:14 (ESV) Life! It’s 1:30 am. and I am trying to gather my thoughts as to where God will lead me today.

I then begin to focus on a 1997 photo with my parents along with five more couples. Then it dawned on me, out of the 12 individuals on that picture 6 of them now wait on the “Lords appearing” that is when I go to James 4:14 and recall the words of one of my deceased love one’s on the picture. “We are all just standing in line”

My friends generation go and come the Palmist tells us “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” Ps. 90:10 (NIV) So What God’s Word is telling us is, we are only promised 70 years to establish a legacy, and if you are a Child of God, the foundation of that legacy must be centered around what God expects from our time we spend on this earth.

In addition, our life does not belong to us, it belongs to God for He created us in His image to serve Him and give Him all of our praise, glory and honor. So friends that doesn’t give us much time. So today it becomes personal again as we ask God to please give us the power of discernment, so that we may not “as others do, who have no hope” and become complacent.

To waste one day not in the total presence of our Savior is to waste that small amount of time and grace God has given us to get it right. So how do we COMMUNICATE our message to others and especially to ourselves in the midst of the over saturation of technology, and the bombardment of the media on every level which has allowed the god of this world to manipulate our minds with wasted time, along with what we watch and listen too, the few years we are promised hear on this earth.

When do we say, enough is enough! My God! Not another day will go by that I will not seek Your presence as I say “not my will but thou will” for if we are a child of God and study prophecy while asking God’s Spirit for understanding of God’s Word “we know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” [one day soon] destruction will come upon [all who have not allowed Christ to transform there life]…..and [they] will not escape.” 1 Thess. 5:2-3 (ESV) My friends Satan’s only desire is that we all lose sight of Christ saving grace, while forgetting that life is too short to squander away on the things of this world that he has placed before us to cause us to lose out on life eternal and God’s pure and holy kingdom.

I can’t repeat these words enough; nothing in this world is worth losing our Salvation over. For God’s “sake [and entrance into the promise land we] have [to suffer] the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that [we] may gain Christ,” [and life eternal] Phil. 3:8 (KJV)

Our focused must never waiver. 2014 has fulfilled prophecy like never before, “with wars and the threat of wars throughout our world, famines and earthquakes in various places, Ebola, HIV, false prophets telling the world “Peace where there is no peace”, lawlessness abounds like never before and the love of many continues to grow cold.

But my God also gives His Children promises in His Word of His love, grace and mercy, promises which makes it very personal which states. [any of my children] who endures to the end will be saved. And [the good news of the] gospel…..will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then [OUR SAVIOR WILL COME AND TIME AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE NO MORE] Matt. 24 3:13 (ESV)

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