MY TREASURE

I have looked at all the things I need to straighten up in this house and sometimes I feel so overwhelmed. I look at all my little treasures from Grandmother, and all my children's books. I see all the nic nacs that I just couldn't part with when we left Aiken, and as I watched the folks in Indianna and Kentucky lose everything, I felt completely humbled by my circumstances. The Lord has been so gracious to allow me to stay where I am, and to have what I do have, but He has reminded me that my treasures aren't here on earth, but in Heaven! Yes, I enjoy my fun things, but they are just that.......things! My treasure is the Lord Jesus Christ and He is in Heaven above!
Becky

WITHOUT FAITH

With all these storms and tornadoes going on all over the country today, and watching even small cities being wiped off the map, makes me wonder if the end times aren't truly upon us, folks. Now, I'm not an alarmist, but if I'm reading scripture right and God word's says that at the beginning of the end times, these things will begin to happen and will increase in intensity. Now it doesn't take a nuclear scientist to see that these unusual happenings have been occuring all over the world, with increasing frequency too! If it were me saying it, you could chuckle all day long, but it's God's word, and every single one of God's prophecies have come true since the beginning of time,.....so why would He change now?
I'm banking on God!
One of these days, one of the most spectacular happenings will occur that man has ever seen, and won't be able to explain. The believers will suddenly disappear from the face of the earth and many will suddenly believe in UFO's as the only possible explanation for their removal!....... If they only knew!
If they had bothered to read scripture, they would KNOW, that Jesus will come back and meet His believers in the air, and will catch them up to Heaven above!
A simple explanation that requires faith, and without faith it is impossible to please God!
Now, here's the clencher. These same folks will tell you that they believe in the Christmas story and the virgin birth, and that they believe that Jesus died on a cross for our sins and rose again from the dead after three days. Yet, as hard as that would seem to be for them to believe, that can't imagine that Christ could actually come down from Heaven and meet His saints in the air and catch them up into Heaven. Go figure?
Without faith it is impossible to please God!
Becky

PLAYING WITH FIRE

When we were children, we were told not to play with fire, and now that we are adults, we are told the same thing......
Scripture tells us to choose the way and the truth and the life, which is Jesus Christ, and He will lead us to Heaven, but if we don’t choose this, we will be playing with fire for an eternity and getting badly burned with no relief ever!
Becky

TEARS

I have noticed something about surgeries and the after math of them. They tend to make people a little more vulnerable in their feelings and emotions. I’m not sure why, but maybe it’s the stored up dosage of meds that are given.....
I don’t know. I just know that when I was at therapy today, I was doing my exercises just fine, and smiling and laughing, when all of a sudden, I felt tears come falling from my eyes. There was no reason why, because I wasn’t sad or hurting, so I had to attribute it to the aftermath of my surgery. I was grateful to Jim for understanding and allowing me those tears to come anyway. He said that this was a safe place for them to come for whatever reason they were coming.
I know God stores our tears up in a bottle, but I surely wish He would tell me ahead of time, when He is gonna take the lid off, so I can be ready!
Becky