I am thankful today that this short-term earthly life is not the end.
These short and fleeting years are not nearly a long enough time to love family and friends. These years are not nearly long enough a time to talk and laugh and plan with brothers and sisters and nieces, nephews, daughters and sons and grands and great-grands.
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We don’t live like we believe this I think.
Alas, we cannot deny that these bodies as they are, do not live forever.
They get old.
They wear out. They cease to take us where we want to go as comfortably or as fast as we want to be there.
So what about us does go on and on without end?
Do you know? Do you give it much thought?
The older I get the more I think about what’s coming next; about saying goodbye to this body of flesh that I reside in for now. And not just me but others, brothers and sisters and nieces, nephews, daughters and sons and grands and great-grands. And there is one thing I want for us all.
3 John 4 Nothing gives me greater joy than hearing that my children are living in the truth.source
I have to ask are you living in the truth?
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. source
Because HE came & is coming again, Kathie Whitestone Thompson
Romans 8:28 King James Version 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. source
We know, not we hope, not we think, but we know.
We know that ALL things that come in and out of our lives, out of whose lives?
The lives of certain people. What people?
People who LOVE GOD, people who are called according to His Purpose.
What is His Purpose?
2 Peter 3:9 New American Standard Bible 1995 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.source
I am confident His Purpose is that ALL people come to repentance so they do not perish.
So, who can know, who should know that ALL things work together for good for them?
People who LOVE GOD.
And who are those people who love GOD?
People who have repented and keep on repenting.
These people (you and I) should know and live as we know that ALL things, all happenings be those happenings bitter or sweet, GOD is working those situations for our good.
Do we know this?
Do we day in and day out live as though we know this?
We can learn.
Because He came & He is coming again, Kathie Whitestone Thompson
Well, today is the day! A day for feasting and the giving of thanks for the Feast. I am thankful that feasts are a GOD Thing. Feast
Most often we think of feasting, as it is related to the intake of food. Albeit, I am reminded that we are also privileged to FEAST upon The WORD of GOD. May it be as this month of Thanksgiving continues that we will FEAST on The Scriptures. They will surely nourish us; no other food comes close.
Revelation 3:20 New American Standard Bible 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. source
Hebrews 5:14 King James Version 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. source
1 Peter 2:2 New Living Translation 2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, source
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 New American Standard Bible 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.8 Therefore let’s celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. source
Just something to chew on today. :)
Because HE came & HE is coming again, Kathie Whitestone Thompson
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