Last night, about 4am I awoke with dreadful sense. My mind ruminating over the usual worries, bills, health, relatives dying of "turbo cancer" (yeah, they took the v . . . 34 year old mother of two).
I had a heavy heavy sense of ominous dread that I couldn't shake and, so finally just got out of bed, went downstairs to check on things, check the news. Well, and quickly caught the fire news.
We have family and friends in that zone. Our son and daughter-in-law (and dog "uncle "Banjo") are ok but keeping an eye on it. Waiting to hear from one of my cousins (a mother with a family of five) who are directly in the path. Haven't heard back from them. And a couple of close friends--haven't heard from them yet.
Heavy heart right now . . . for this, and a number of reasons.
This life is a vapor--tomorrow is not promised
Then I think of the Savior . . . and the apostles . . . and the prophets . . . and all of the innocent creatures, the faithful, the martyrs, who have suffered the worst persecution one can imagine. And I expect more, sadly.
As I've long written . . . we are under deliberate, evil attack, constantly, from within and, obviously without. The knowledge and experience and reality of evil and the stakes at hand , in this fleeting mortal life, constantly recur to my mind and soul, BUT and only strengthen my appreciation of the knowledge, experience, reality of it's opposite--GOODNESS, LOVE, TRUTH--GOD!
The Adversary's powerful tactics are to confuse, confound, distract, mollify, coddle, lure, bribe, extort, subvert, pervert, mystify--create so much "smoke and mirrors"--so that the targeted living soul ignores and barely or rarely ever thinks deeply about what the actual meaning and purpose of this life is--short and brutal as it tends to be.
It makes the rebellious mad and hateful and lash out and enable possession (of the demonic) -- to hear that the purpose of life . . . is the purpose of YAHWEH--about The Glory Of God! HIS awesome, Holy majesty, sovereignty!
Once one grasps and surrenders to THAT realization, suffering can be endured with a song and a prayer!
This is not our home. We are not the boss. Stop resisting. God's grace is sufficient.
Our sufferings, as terrible as they can be, are "not to be compared to the Glory that shall be revealed in us!"
1 comment:
Dear Bro. T.,
I'm so very sorry to hear about your relative and a 34-year old mother of 2 :( Please accept my deepest condolences.. Yes.. I've read that the cancer rates have been increasing exponentially ever since the powers-that-be scared people into getting that mRNA jab.. I did see on X the result of the fires in the LA region. It's like Maui all over again. I hope you hear from your cousins and friends and that they are safe and sound. We are totally boxed-in by the evil ones; however, I truly believe YAHWEH has this covered for the ones which believe in Him and His Son the (our) Lord and savior. Bro. T. you are correct to write that most people actually don't understand why they are here or what's truly the purpose of all this. Solomon wrote (spoke) so succinctly that "mans duty is to serve the Lord." The basic premise to this, I believe, is to follow YAHWEH'S commandments and to seek His face," as mentioned throughout scripture. Like you wrote, "it's about Him and not about us."
Peace, love and the Lord's favor,
Roger
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