I'm waiting

It has been awhile since I wrote a blog. Maybe I have been feeling to bloggy lately. I have thoughts I need to write down and express, I do in my journal but I have been thinking lately I need to connect to whom-ever out there.
I had a conversation with someone close and dear to me recently. He had questions about life and God just like so many of us do. The evil in this world is so in your face now days that it just makes you want to cry out "come quickly Lord Jesus." Everything that I see going on in this world points my thoughts in one direction, it won't be long until our Savior comes again.(one day to us is but a moment to God though, so we don't really know when it will be) Christ is coming to rescue us, but He will not rescue all of us. He will gather His faithful, people who have called upon His name and accepted His free gift of eternal life. A life with out heart-ache, physical pain, lose, and hardship, in a place that He is preparing right now at this time. A place that I know my mom, mom-in-law and others I have witnessed go before me now dwell. Where their questions about life and God have already been answered. My mom use to say that it is not for us to know the why of everything that God is doing in this world. It is for us to accept Him and His love for us and build a relationship with Him so that He can reveal to us, in His own time the answers we seek in life.

I wait in anticipation Lord, I will serve you while I'm waiting, I will worship while I'm waiting.

Hope or hopeless

My heart nearly aches to see our Savior come soon. As I witness and hear about so many things happening in this world, our country, our state, our town and our homes I cry out for Him to come and rescue us. I wonder how God himself can tolerate us. In my own world I hear about and witness stories of hurting children at school. I go home and cry out come quickly Lord. There is a story in every classroom. I don’t know them all but I know some and I hurt for these children and their families. So many families under fire from evil in this world, I wonder so often when God is going to reign Satan in and fight His final battle. I anxiously wait, and even though I try not to just sit around and wait I am guilty of wanting to cower and hide from the heart ache all around me. If I let my feelings control me some days I would hide in my home and not reach out, not seek to talk to anyone, not face so many thoughts. I know that is not what God would want of me. I battle with feelings, but I have come to learn just by listening and observing the world around me that I need to “empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, every foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. Everything is a lesser thing compared to You.” (Chris Sligh)

I know you, or may not know you, whoever you are reading this. I may know your name and pray for you, but then again I may have only met you along life’s way, but I still lift you up to our loving Savior. He knows you and all about what is going on in your life. I talk to Him about you, but He knows all that I am saying and thinking even before it comes out of my mouth. I am relieved because some days I can only cry out to Him, I hurt to much. You are special to me, but you are even more special to your Father in heaven who waits to hear from you. You don’t have to be perfect, none of us are. He knows all about where you are in your life and where you have been.

As you examine your life and the world all around you, especially with what the world looks like right now do you have hope or are you hopeless for peace, for yourself and your family. The only eternal peace we can have is with God and the only way to Him is through a relationship with Jesus.

I linger here on earth because I still have work to do for Him.