Death! Hope!

Turning on the television and listening to the news can be so disheartening. We talk about people overseas how vicious they are, yet the news reports indicate that we have many unsavory deeds/ acts being committed here in the USA. The point is, people are the same everywhere. For example, some people nowadays say that if they were living in the time of the Israelites, when GOD performed all those miracles, they would be faithful and not err. I say,  you probably would behave just like them. It is interested that many of us prepare for emergencies but when it actually besets us is a whole different ball game.

People, selfishness has been our downfall, what I call the "I problem." This great concern for ourselves and not to generally caring about others and their welfare has been etched in our DNA since the entrance of sin into the world. We are instructed that the only cure lies in the person of Prince Emmauel. I borrow the words of Revelation 3:17-21,
"¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

²¹ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne."

My readers, if we do not realize that we need help, we cannot see how deficient we are in the spiritual sense.   After acknowledging our lack, we need to do something , 1 John 1:9,
"⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." My question is to us all are we willing to give JESUS a chance? Can HE be the first choice and not the last resort? Let's meditate on this thought.

Maranatha!