Dec. 8 2014
MY FRIENDS, TWO THOUSANDS YEARS AND WE STILL WAIT, WHAT MUST A CHILD OF GOD DO?
Looking back as a child, when it was time for the family to go on vacations, usually in the summers. Oh the anticipation, of all the fun, and places we would be going, the excitement the adventure.
And then, that day would come, the packing, and food my mother would prepare for the many miles into an unknown territory we would be traveling a world of “Mother goose” and fairy tales to a child, a chance of discovering a world that left an imprint on one’s mind even to this day.
NASA has developed two spaceships “Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 that were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.” between them, Voyager 1 and 2 would explore all the giant outer planets of our solar system, 48 of their moons, and the unique systems of rings and magnetic fields those planets possess.
Their five-year lifetimes stretched to 12 and is now near thirty years.” 30 years to explore just a fraction of the vast solar system 
our God created in six days, an attempt to find that place “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 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV)
The god of this world has created within man a passion that drives them to do whatever it takes to get to that place called heaven. like the tower of Babel, Man thinks there is an easy and simple route, if we just keep building and exploring, we will eventually get there.
“Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, And He will have mercy on him….For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.“ Isaiah 55:7-9 (NKJV)
My friends we wait, we lone for that day, but we also must work. “As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent us. Night is coming, when no one can work.” John 9:4 (NIV) “Work, for the night is coming, Work through the sunny noon; Fill the brightest hours with labor, because rest will sure to come very soon.”
Oh the anticipation for the unknown. our new home, with streets of gold and mansions for all. But my friends, rest want come until God says “it is finished” let’s go get our children. Until then, we must be doing field work, utility jobs, the jobs that takes a lot of sweat and hard work to complete.
Some say, once you find Christ your job is complete, there is nothing else to be done, Salvation is free, I need only to sit back and wait for the Lord’s return. But James tells us in James 2:14-17 (NKJV) What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” Christ as our example tells us “Whoever wants to be my disciple must 
deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23 (NIV)
To carry a cross each day is not an easy task, Christ “came down from heaven not to do [His] will but to do the will of His Father who sent Him.” John 6:38 (NIV) Remember it is Christ who tells us “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Luke 10:2 (NIV) My friends, how do those who do not know in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.” Learn of the good news, if we who know, don’t tell them.
So friends as we wait with passion and anticipation for Christ return, roll up your sleeves and blouses and work.
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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