Life After Death

I was sitting on a hillside and enjoying the sunset.  I began to pray.  I do not even remember what I was praying about when the prayer began, but after a little while I just started to pray about the places where I have lived.  I was not complaining.  I was just talking to God about how I have never really found a place I could call home.  There have been a few places that I really liked, but something has always come up that made it necessary to move on.

That is the way it is in our modern world.  Mobility expands the opportunities that are available to us, but I have never really been able find a place to call home.

If we listen when we pray, sometimes God answers back.  I don’t hear a thundering voice from heaven or see a blinding flash of light.  I just get a feeling, a blessed assurance as the Holy Spirit moves me.  There on the mountainside God gave me a sense of peace, and I understood that He wanted me to know that He has a home for me.  It is a place where I will be able to know the happiness that comes from being with Him … forever.

Jesus said:

‘Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you;

for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you,

I will come again and receive you to Myself,

that where I am, there you may be also.

And you know the way where I am going.’

Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going,

how do we know the way?’

Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life;

no one comes to the Father but through Me.’  (John 14: 1-6 NASB) (1)

 Jesus also said:

‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?’

(John 11:25-26 NASB) (2)

Our bodies will die.  Then, that part of us that is not physical, our soul and spirit, will instantly be with Jesus in heaven. (2Corinthians 5:6-10) When the resurrection of our bodies happens at the Rapture, our soul and spirit will be reunited with an immortal resurrection body to remain forever with the Lord. (1Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1Corinthians 15:42-44)

Do you believe this?  If you haven’t already, believe in Jesus today.  Your true home is waiting for you.  All you have to do is enter in.

 

(1) https://biblehub.com/

(2) Ibid.

 

 

The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Campaign Issue

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a campaign issue in the U. S. general election.  If you have read any of my previous posts, you know that I try to avoid inflammatory language and “loaded” wording.  Let me break from that to state the obvious for those who are unable to see it.  Whether you support President Trump or former Vice President Biden, to make the blame for the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 pandemic an issue that will decide your vote is stupid.  In case you didn’t get that … IT IS STUPID!

The Democrats point to the ever increasing number of persons who are being infected, and to the number of lives lost, and they blame President Trump for reopening the economy.  Their answer is to mandate wearing masks and another ruinous general shutdown of our society.

The Republicans hold that, due to the president’s policy of accelerated treatment and vaccine development, treatments have improved to the point that fewer people are dying, and a vaccine is just around the corner.  They say that the Democrats are to blame for the high rates of infection and death in places like New York City and California, and that the problem would be far worse nationwide if the Democrats had been in charge.  They point to the high rates of infection where drastic shutdowns have been implemented in Europe and the United Kingdom, and they say that another general shutdown would do more harm than good.

I say that we should stop bickering amongst ourselves and work together.  The problem is bigger than petty politics.  The blame for the COVID-19 pandemic falls squarely on the Communist government of Mainland China.  Our leaders need to be working together toward leading the world in the measured response that must be taken to hold the Chinese government responsible and consequence them.

We will probably never know, conclusively, whether the Chinese Communist Party was trying to weaponize the Corona Virus and whether they released it accidentally or intentionally.  What we do know is that faulty decision making on their part inflicted a pandemic on the world.

Let's stop playing into the hands of our enemies.  Put the blame on the Chinese government where it belongs.  Let your vote be decided by your position on the many other issues that are important to America.

Albert Einstein is reported to have said, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” And, “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” *  Well said.

  

* https://www.brainyquote.com/