There's Life After Death

God can do all things, he provides strength to carry on, even when the whole world crashes in on our hearts, he will never leave us, we will find love and strength in His arms.

Even when we think that God should have done something to save someone, we mere mortals cannot comprehend the knowledge, mercy, compassion and understanding of our Father in Heaven. He knows whats right even when we think its wrong.

A friend of my wife's and I will be going home today to be with the Father and the Son and in this time of reflection God brought this to my mind when I was praying for the family of David our friend who was going home.

There is life after death, both in Heaven and on Earth.

Life will continue for Dave in Heaven with the Father forever more. But likewise, for the family and friends of those left behind, those who are grieving, sleepless and feeling hopeless, there is life on Earth for them as well. May they realize that though their loved one is gone, that the God who loves them, has still provided the opportunity of life abundantly on this Earth in which they still remain.

Until we all meet again, may David Kennedy rest and live in the peace and warm embrace of the Savior in Heaven, and may the Holy Spirit comfort the Kennedy family!

Let us not be the same

Surely we all can remember hearing the stories of Jesus when he encountered the Jewish leadership of his time. They were brash, stubborn, self-righteous and deceitful. Well back in the old Testament God spoke to Ezekiel about these very same shepherds of Israel:

"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds; 'Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened. neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them."
                                 Ezekiel 34:2-6 KJV-


Corruption, lack of leadership, vanity, self-righteousness, greed and a whole host of other adjectives could be used to describe the shepherds of these verses. They are exactly the opposite of what we as saved Christians need to be.


We must seek after the scattered, the lost, the broken, the sick. We must as God's shepherds of the truth on earth seek after his own who are far from the truth. That is our job. Let us not be the same as those of the old testament book of Ezekiel. We have to step out of our cozy little worlds into the fray where the enemy walks around waiting to attack us when we try to turn the hearts of the wicked to God. But that again friends is our job.

Lets commit to reaching the lost for the Lord, lets turn this world on fire for God and not stop until we breathe our last. Who's with me?

What happens when we turn from our ways?

So what does happen when we turn from our ways? I don't mean just the bad ways, what about the good ones too?

Here is what God's says in Ezekiel 33

"When the righteous turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby."
                                Ezekiel 33:18-19 KJV-


So what does this all mean. Basically this, if we know the truth and as Christians we should, then if we are living righteously then all is fine. But if we turn from the righteous way and the righteous God we will surely die in our sins, and if we die in our sins we likely know where we are headed when we depart this world.

On the flip side if the wicked stays on his wicked path he too will suffer the fate of the one who fell from righteousness. But he too, the wicked man, can turn from his ways, follow God and his ways, accept what is lawful and right (thanks to Christ's sacrifice he became both which is lawful and right) he can be saved from the torture of Hell.

Bottom line to these verses if you are on the straight and narrow do all you can through prayer and relationship with God to stay on that path (he will do the rest), and if you are not on that path, reach out to God to show you the way, and when you get there stay on that path as well because as Christ puts it in Matthew 7:

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." 


Be counted as one of the few my friends!