It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness...'
Lamentations 3:22-23
In his requeim to the late Diana, Elton John was singing about the impactful life she led. The tribute flows, the words are nice but he was singing about what was.
Paradoxically as it might seems, Lamentations 3 talks about what is. God the great I AM and His faithfulness to us.
'.....and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death'
Hebrews 2:14-15
Man, it seems love change. Change brings about a new perspective, notwithstanding that the reailty is that it is often more a reword or rework of the same precepts.
Some desire change to fulfill their lustful desires. Not too sure if than stunning but now more stunted Liz Taylor still holds one of the highest honour for divorce., but maybe it matters not, for now the fad is not in the number of times at the altar, but rather in the differential in ages between the consenting adults.
Different fears gripped us at different stages of our life cycle. When we were mere infants, we expressed our needs or fear of hunger by simply bawling. As we moved up physically, some might have stopped crawling, but bawling remains as the chief weapon of choice in their infantile behavour.
Societal perceptions, prideful status, financial well being and power or the dearth of it will probably be the change of guards as far as what grips our consciousness as we mature. But is death truly the master of all fears. For in sinning, the perfect world that God created for us is despoiled and we have literally sold our souls to the devil and death marks the payback time for our continued disobedience to God and our subservience to Satan.
But mortal death is not the be all or end all. It just mark the beginning of a new journey at the crossroads. A time to be with the Lord in Spirit, a time of joy and peace or is it going to be a time of eternal damnation in the cauldron of hell??
My father was hospitalized a couple of days back. Like many of us, he knows the Lord and believes in Him. Yet like all of us, the imperfect human that marks all of us ensures that the fear of death, which seems more real to the senses rather than the promise of God, will be that barrier we all have to cross when the flickering flames that mark our lives is finally snuffed out.
My father is well now, for it is the Lord's timing not ours. Yet, we will all have to meet Him and with the increased personification of End Times, be it floods, bird flu, firestorms or whatever that comes next, even the supposedly longer duration flames of youth can be but snuffed out earlier than planned.
My father , now age 75 was blessed to have the time to know the Lord in his twilight years, when he was in his early 70s. Like many of us, he has had his fair share of the delights and the sorrows of this sinful world. Yet, it is a mystery of God, as to why and when and how God lifted the blindness in his heart, with time to spare. I believe that it was my sisters' faithfulness, prayers and example that was used by the Lord, to bring about my father's willingness to let go and trust Him.
He, like all of us, is still learning to know Him better, but it is my belief that my father has crossed over.
I have no ability to tell what is in a man's heart. Some might profess their belief and put on the symbolic badges of Christendom, but only the Lord can tell what is truly in their hearts. Some claim that God has no place in their lives, but He is working to fill the longing vacumn that has long existed in their unbelief, for the day will come when they will crossover.
'Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I got to prepare a place for you. I will come again , and receive you unto myself, that where I am, thre ye may be also......'
John 14:1-6
God is real, and time is short. Many of us believers or not ask for length of days. But have we used it well to know the Lord, to clothe ourselves with His grace, for that inevitable time of destiny with Him.
'...Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me...'
John 14:8
God Blesses
Eng Hieang
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