June 16, 2016
MY FRIENDS, HOW MANY MORE TEARS AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS?
Its personal my friends because if you are a child of God we all yearn or have a passion that starts with our tears and sleepless nights and ends with that personal relationship with God that says our journey to the promise land is worth every trial and tribulation of our life. And our healing comes from those same tears and sleepless nights, and the fact in knowing God loves us and “He will never leave nor forsake us.”
In addition, along with the many tears we shed and the thousands of sleepless nights we go through in our life, looking back we can say they have always been God’s grace and mercies in disguise, because the trials of this life and the tears we shed tell us there will be a better day if through our faith we can endure until God says “it is finished.”
William Miller who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century religious movement that was known as the Millerites, makes a statement that says, “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. “For whom my soul yearns” through the many tears and sleepless nights our soul seeks His presence. “Our soul yearns,” for the mind, character, and Spirit of God.
“Our soul yearns” to have the humility of a child who still needs comfort in knowing that “God keeps a count of our tossing’s [throughout the night as
he puts our] tears in His bottle, [while] recording them in His book” Ps 56:8 (KJV paraphrased) But my friends, above and beyond everything else our soul must yearn for the moment when Christ Himself “will wipe away every tear from our eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Rev. 21:4 (ESV)
And that is why we must “fix our mind” on Christ second coming as we completely eliminate self and Set “our heart on the things above, [and] not on the things on this earth.” And if we have decided to serve God and make a total commitment to Him, through our tears and sleepless nights we must tell ourselves we are no longer lost sheep, but we are vessels of God, set apart as disciples with our on cross to bear for the one who gave it all for our salvation.
We are also a-part of “A FEW” who will finish up the work of God for “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers ARE FEW.” Luke 10:2 (NIV) And we are a-part of an elect group ”who will travel that narrow and difficult path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and [we are a-part of only] “A FEW” who will find it.” Matt. 7:13-14 (NKJV) And we are a-part of a few that will “go through great tribulation, and wash our robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Rev. 7:14 (NKJV)
But through it all, what gives us the most comfort is knowing that our tears and the thousand of sleepless nights and all of the trials and tribulations of this world, that we have fulfilled God’s mandate and preached the gospel into all the world and that we are not only a-part of “A FEW” but, a great multitude which no one could number.
[And part of that number were souls we brought to Christ] of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, as we all stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in [our] hands, and [still crying my friends, and] with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Rev. 7:9-10 (NKJV)
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