(I tell myself, all I want to do is be left alone ... why can't people just leave me alone.)
AND THERE YOU ARE ...that gaze ..those eyes that reach into my soul and shake my world.
You don't flinch ...you don't bat an eye ... your expression is constant ... I can't quite figure what is really in your heart as you stare ...
Your eyes are beginning to unnerve me ...your look is beginning to unravel me at the seams ... I'm not worth your time ... I'm not worthy of your gaze.
Stop looking at me that way!
Don't you have anything better to do than to just sit there and stare at me?
How many times have we cried from a broken heart in the darkness of the night because we were convinced that no one in the universe was remotely concerned about our fears, pain, and rejection. HOLD ON A MINUTE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING!!!
One very important Premise: You are God's Child (IF you are one of those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ, His death, burial and ressurrection to rescue them and protect them from the penalty of their sin. His blood sacrifice is the only acceptable payment for our sins -- the only payment. If you say you believe in God but don't believe in Jesus, your faith is an immence insult to the Father and doesn't count for a thing. Your faith without Christ cannot save you from the wrath of the insulted Father ... John 3:36).
and As His Child ...
He is ravished by the look of your eye, His heart beats faster for you!
Song of Solomon 4:9 - Thou hast ravished my heart , my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
He is overcome by your eyes,He is captured by your look!
Song of Solomon 6:5 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats thatappear from Gilead.
He feels your feelings, He is broken by your broken moments!
Hebrews 4:15 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in allpoints tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
He has a book of remembrance and a bottle for your tears, He truly cares!
Psalm 56:8 - Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
When those we love look at us ...you know the looks! Pain, fear, disappointment, love ....WE ARE TOUCHED; aren't we?
So much more is He!
HLFA,
Jeff
Don't Wake Me Unless...
"Don't wake me up! ... unless you can convince me I'm home" ...Theresa Lambe 8/19/2010 (My mom) "or that it is time for lunch."
Walking through a nursing home for the first time can be quite disconcerting .
People sitting in wheel chairs in the hallways with weird frozen expressions on their faces, lost in time.
Voices saying "Hello" from darkened rooms ... people sitting looking at doors that security has been applied to keep them safe
but also locking them in.
Refugees from a familiar world that has become an unfamiliar enemy that is ever trying to harm them or just leave them forgotten and left behind.
More troubling and stressful might be that ...you find that you are one of the members of this increasingly saddened sunset community.
Don't leave me just yet this is not just a rambling diatribe to convince you to have pity on my elderly Mom or other Mom's and Dad's just like her, who find themselves in their last days in a nursing home ..(though not to minimalize your responsibility to love, pray, visit, and care)... But it is a wake up call to ALERT you to a more insidious plot being carried out by the enemy of creation...Satan.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! read this: 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober , be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour :
I have yet to find people physically mauled and ripped in pieces ..between 2 peices of bread and sliding into the jaws of a fiery red snarling monster ...drooling with the blood of former victims.
BUT I CONTINUALLY MEET PEOPLE WHOSE SOULS HAVE ALL BUT BEEN DEVOURED, RAVAGED, AND EMPTIED.
Their breath of life has to be facilitated by shallow temporary stimulants. Their personal happiness is heavily dependent on temporal pleasures and depreciating possessions. Their hope of a better life is built on nothing less than impossible odds and marketing ploys. When all is said and done ...life gets darker and sadder with no desire to AWAKE ... PLEASE WAKE ME...
When life narrows down because of age or illness ...it is amazing that the question of "What is next?" Can be simplified and/or clarified by asking ourselves
WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH JESUS?
He that believeth on the Son has everlasting life, but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life (not now not ever) ...but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36
For those who Believe ...Hang on for the next one ...this is it.
Psalm 17:15 - As for me,
I will behold Thy face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied ,
when I awake , with Thy likeness.
The Hebrew word for awake is pronounced "koots - and means: to awake, wake up, to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, "awake" (like wide-awake) - its primitive root is identical, "koots" but means --- "spend the summer" ... with the thought of waking up and finding it summer. WEIRD? ...not really. Get some potato chips and munch on them for a moment and think about the following final thought: Summer Vacation with Jesus forever!!! My summer home forever ......home forever .....forever home with Him ....forever Summer.
HLFA,
Jeff
Walking through a nursing home for the first time can be quite disconcerting .
People sitting in wheel chairs in the hallways with weird frozen expressions on their faces, lost in time.
Voices saying "Hello" from darkened rooms ... people sitting looking at doors that security has been applied to keep them safe
but also locking them in.
Refugees from a familiar world that has become an unfamiliar enemy that is ever trying to harm them or just leave them forgotten and left behind.
More troubling and stressful might be that ...you find that you are one of the members of this increasingly saddened sunset community.
Don't leave me just yet this is not just a rambling diatribe to convince you to have pity on my elderly Mom or other Mom's and Dad's just like her, who find themselves in their last days in a nursing home ..(though not to minimalize your responsibility to love, pray, visit, and care)... But it is a wake up call to ALERT you to a more insidious plot being carried out by the enemy of creation...Satan.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! read this: 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober , be vigilant ; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about , seeking whom he may devour :
I have yet to find people physically mauled and ripped in pieces ..between 2 peices of bread and sliding into the jaws of a fiery red snarling monster ...drooling with the blood of former victims.
BUT I CONTINUALLY MEET PEOPLE WHOSE SOULS HAVE ALL BUT BEEN DEVOURED, RAVAGED, AND EMPTIED.
Their breath of life has to be facilitated by shallow temporary stimulants. Their personal happiness is heavily dependent on temporal pleasures and depreciating possessions. Their hope of a better life is built on nothing less than impossible odds and marketing ploys. When all is said and done ...life gets darker and sadder with no desire to AWAKE ... PLEASE WAKE ME...
When life narrows down because of age or illness ...it is amazing that the question of "What is next?" Can be simplified and/or clarified by asking ourselves
WHAT HAVE WE DONE WITH JESUS?
He that believeth on the Son has everlasting life, but he that believeth not the Son, shall not see life (not now not ever) ...but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36
For those who Believe ...Hang on for the next one ...this is it.
Psalm 17:15 - As for me,
I will behold Thy face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied ,
when I awake , with Thy likeness.
The Hebrew word for awake is pronounced "koots - and means: to awake, wake up, to awaken, arouse, show signs of waking, "awake" (like wide-awake) - its primitive root is identical, "koots" but means --- "spend the summer" ... with the thought of waking up and finding it summer. WEIRD? ...not really. Get some potato chips and munch on them for a moment and think about the following final thought: Summer Vacation with Jesus forever!!! My summer home forever ......home forever .....forever home with Him ....forever Summer.
HLFA,
Jeff
Wow You Have Changed!!!
The surprise of finding someone we haven't seen for years ---Sometimes unbelievable --- Sometimes a royal guffaw --- Always brings back memories.
via facebook I received this message (that has been altered so as to disguise the author) with a few verbs left out, not to rob you of a blessing, but to not pat myself on the back:
"You would be surprised how much I've changed. Very much the same stubborn, red head I've always been but my ideas & opinions surprise a lot of people who haven't known me for a while. Lol! When I saw you on here I couldn't believe it was really you.
BAD CHANGE ???? Plow on without any consideration of eternity and the connection to life through Jesus --- making our own way and ignoring that He is the only Way.
Romans 1:23 - And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creepingthings.
Romans 1:25 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator , who is blessed for ever. Amen.
SURPRISE CHANGE ????Those who have turned to Him for protection and refuge from Sin and its consequences will be pleasantly surprise in this moment.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - Behold , I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die) , but we shall all be changed (Raptured) 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed .
SPIRITUAL CHANGE ????Letting the Word of God become our daily passion and companion gives us the opportunity to experience His Glory day by day.
2 Corinthians 3:18 - But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, evenas by the Spirit of the Lord.
Meta-morpho --- to change with or because of an influencing form and to an influencing form ....HOW ARE YOU CHANGING??????
via facebook I received this message (that has been altered so as to disguise the author) with a few verbs left out, not to rob you of a blessing, but to not pat myself on the back:
"You would be surprised how much I've changed. Very much the same stubborn, red head I've always been but my ideas & opinions surprise a lot of people who haven't known me for a while. Lol! When I saw you on here I couldn't believe it was really you.
BAD CHANGE ???? Plow on without any consideration of eternity and the connection to life through Jesus --- making our own way and ignoring that He is the only Way.
Romans 1:23 - And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creepingthings.
Romans 1:25 - Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator , who is blessed for ever. Amen.
SURPRISE CHANGE ????Those who have turned to Him for protection and refuge from Sin and its consequences will be pleasantly surprise in this moment.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - Behold , I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (die) , but we shall all be changed (Raptured) 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound , and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed .
SPIRITUAL CHANGE ????Letting the Word of God become our daily passion and companion gives us the opportunity to experience His Glory day by day.
2 Corinthians 3:18 - But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, evenas by the Spirit of the Lord.
Meta-morpho --- to change with or because of an influencing form and to an influencing form ....HOW ARE YOU CHANGING??????
You are influenced and you will influence .... is Jesus that main influencer????? HOW? WOW?
HLFA,
Jeff
HLFA,
Jeff
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