Breakfast For Your Soul

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. 

[Philippians 4:7]

 

 

 

Good Morning Beloved,

 

What a beautiful day it is!  Unseasonably warm isn’t it DC metro?  This is that “get-outside-and-do-what-you-need-to-do-out-there-before-the-real-winter-comes” weather.  Enjoy today.  Life is so short.  This morning I received a call from a close friend; her beloved Grandmother has passed.  She was at her bedside at home.  This wonderful lady, who I’ve known since I was 16, has been battling cancer for many months.  It has been her strong desire to go home to be with the Lord.  She has lived a full life.  A good life filled with the love of her family and friends, a very long and distinguished career as an educator and a comfortable life-style.  They thought they lost her a while back, but I told my friend that while her body and her spirit are ready to go… her mind and her eyes wanted to see the nation elect it’s first African American president.  I thought she would try to hang on until Inauguration Day, but maybe she felt she had seen enough.  I don’t know.  I do know that the Bible is clear when it tells, “Whereas you know not what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away”. [James 4:14].  A sobering thought.  It should make us want to live with righteous gusto!  Make our life count in eternal ways.  Leave a positive mark on the world that will never be erased.  We will not understand everything now, but we will one day.  One of our church mothers – Ms. Meacham- is one of those sweet, generous, tough, little, fiery saints that always has a mischievous smile on her face.  She used to stand at the podium, with her hands on her hips, shaking her head decisively and sing:

“Farther Along”, Rev. E. Dewey Smith, Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7JGahCqGH4

 Farther Along
Words and Music by J.R.Baxter and W.B.Stevens
© 1937 Stamps-Baxter Music

Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long,
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.

Refrain
Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

When death has come and taken our loved ones,
It leaves our home so lonely and drear,
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year.

Refrain
Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

Faithful til death, said our loving Master
A few more days to labor and wait,
Toils of the road will then seem as nothing
As we sweet through the beautiful gate.

Refrain
Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

When we see Jesus, coming in glory,
When He comes from His home in the sky,
Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

Refrain
Farther along we’ll know all about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If we keep our mind on Jesus, He will keep us in perfect peace.  That is the greatest battlefield and where the war for our soul is won or lost.  No life is not fair all the time, but no matter where we travel in life, if Jesus is on board, we have love, peace, joy, power, goodness, temperance, meekness, protection… eternal life… all wrapped up in one.

Good Morning Beloved,

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: [Acts 2:17]

For confirmation that we are living in the last days, one need only to take a little peek outside. Our daily news, the television programs we enjoy, the movies we flock to, the music that is being pushed into the atmosphere, all shout, in one way or another, “LAST DAYS!”.  Many of us were taught by Godly predecessors, that Jesus was soon to return.  The older saints used to admonish us to, “get our house” in order.  As the years rolled on, the message began to get fainter, and as that message became quieter, the opposite grew louder.  A new, “if it feels good, do it-if there really is a God only He can judge me-the bible was written by a bunch of mean old men, and has a bunch of flaws in it” religion cropped up.  Everything sacred is under attack.  That only serves to prove that what God said is true.  Everything He said would happen, is happening. Now like never before, in spite of, or rather because of heightened persecution, we as a church, are becoming as the Hebrews of old.  The more they were afflicted… the more they grew.  The more God is maligned, the more His Spirit is being poured out.  The greater the struggle.. the greater the victory.  Miraculous events are occurring even more.  We are seeing greater testimonies than ever.  It is an exciting period of history.  No longer can we afford to live in a state of “trying to get ready”… we are being set in a place where everything we have learned, every gift we were given, every talent we possess, every resource at our disposal, will be given an opportunity to be used for the Glory of God.

….. and that’s some Good News right there!

speaking of God’s Spirit being poured out, check out this ’Baby’ Preacher: http://apostoliclive.com/play.php?vid=492

U Blessed,

Have A Fabulous Day!

Regina