Get Well Wishes. You just never know. I have personal knowledge those Get Well Wishes were designed, printed and then purchased perhaps as long as a decade ago. And today there they are doing just what they were created to do . . . not late or forgotten at all!
It’s not over and we are not finished and we just don’t know until JESUS says so . . . if we did some good.
So. If you are questioning; if you are wondering if the day by day seemingly insignificant, nothing important, nobody even notices or well, that was a failure! is what your living is. DON’T!
Just wait. And while you wait just keep on doing those seemingly insignificant, nothing important and who cares anyway things. Because when you least expect it you will get a picture text (or something) that speaks volumes to your sweet little soul! :)
Galatians 6:9New Living Translation (NLT) 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. source
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3 source
Wednesday night’s message at FBCS was good – John 3:1-21
I have a note in the margin of John 3: we must have a second birth to avoid the second death. You will find the second death mentioned only a few times in the KJV of the Bible but those few are enough to send the warning that we all want to miss it! See HERE.
Obviously, we all have had the first birth and perhaps the second — if you visit here often! :)
The first birth brings us into this natural world. The second into the REAL world – the Kingdom of GOD.
Nicodemus had questions. Nicodemus was a learned man who did not understand spiritual matters. Nicodemus is not alone. So were/are we until we are ready to be shown by the HOLY SPIRIT. John 3 with the guidance of the HOLY SPIRIT explains it perfectly to every willing soul. Read it for yourself. HERE
The second death is reserved for those who choose not the second birth.
It’s simple really.
Born once, die twice.
Born twice, die once.
I’ve done some deep ponderings this morning spanning years reaching back to the late 1800s when my great grandparents, Sallie and James, breathed younger air. I hope that is right, all I remember hearing people call him was Pappy. Sallie, I am sure of but Mammy was her handle. I don’t remember the year of the birth of my grandmother Callie. It could have been 1899 or so but maybe not as her firstborns were born in 1924; my Momma and her twin.
Generations of the Living. How we do that living is more important than we often ponder. I’m now 67, in less than half a year that number will be 68. In these 67 years I have seen seven, yes seven (7), generations of my people walking this Earth’s crust – well, James not so much walking yet. 🥰 And I pondered these generations of my people and our kin – gosh! there’s a lot of us! I have not even a good estimate as to who were church-goers and who was not. Reaching back that far I don’t even know the names of all my kin, let alone if they loved JESUS. But of this conclusion I am certain, watching the years that I have – if you go to church and don’t take church home with you to do as Deuteronomy 6 commands, you open the floodgates of hell to deluge your children and your children’s children and your children’s children’s children to the 4th and 5th, maybe even 7th generation and beyond. We all are built upon what was built and JESUS CHRIST is the only safe, solid, strong and steady foundation that will give our Babies a fighting chance. If we violate Deuteronomy 6:4-9, the hedge is down.
But the good news is we can start Today to put that Hedge in place for those up and coming and we can pray for miracles for us old folks. 🥰
I am writing from recall from early morning – 3:00 ish. The Little One had stirred hungry. So, I fetched him from his crib, and while he gulped down eight ounces of formula snug between us, love and blessings caressed my thoughts.
Thoughts of the difference from now and then. Thoughts of how I didn’t know. Thoughts I wasn’t then but now am grateful. Thank You, LORD GOD. Not that I got to but I get to.
I get to be free. I get to be kind. I get to be patient. I get to be grateful. I get to be happy. I get to overcome me! I get to love you!
Nothing about this Jesus Life is I GOT TO.
It’s all I GET TO!
It’s Freedom.
This is what freedom in Christ in this moment feels like.
I get to love this baby.
I get to hear him drink in nourishment.
I get to desire the sincere milk of the Word. See 1 Peter 2:2-4.
I get to snuggle with this little package of love. I get to!
A life of I get to. It’s a taste of Heaven on earth!
We are glad you are here; stay a while, look around, and be encouraged. We estimate there to be over 3,000 posts here at The White Stone Blog. Please know my hope is ALWAYS to help and NEVER harm. I have voiced many opinions and thoughts here since 2007 and by now I MAY NOT EVEN AGREE with all of them and some of my grammar and punctuation likely needs editing. But this is changeless: JESUS is our ONLY Savior and Hope. Do you KNOW Him?
I have personal knowledge those Get Well Wishes were designed, printed and then purchased perhaps as long as a decade ago. And today there they are doing just what they were created to do . . . not late or forgotten at all!