A Permanent Vacation
Hello everyone,
Earlier today I was listening to a young lady talk about spending the last few days in 90° weather only to get home and find it was 20° cooler. She said that as soon as she stepped off the plane, she knew she wanted to go back where she just left. I asked her where she had been and she said in Florida. She told me that everything was perfect with the temperature, with the weather, and there was nothing but blue skies. I knew exactly how she felt because sometimes those vacation days go by too fast. You find yourself wishing you could immediately be back there again. As I relate this with our walk with the Lord, I would be one of the first to admit that sometimes I need a vacation from this world, its sin and the devil. Unfortunately, the devil never takes a vacation and that as a Christian you always have a target on your back. Satan is going about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Going to Florida may not be accessible to us as much as we wish it could be, but I’m happy to report to you that going to the Throne Room of God is always accessible. Just as you would leave one place and head out to another place, you may find that getting there was a little difficult. Yet once you arrive, you know that it was worth it to make the effort to get there. As you go to God in prayer, it may not be easy at first, but once you get there, all of life’s troubles seem to fade for a while. As that young lady was ready to go back to Florida in lieu of her wonderful experience there, I am the exact same way with the Lord. He knows how to calm the troubled waters of my soul, and to give me joy unspeakable and full of glory. The Lord knows how to move aside those gray skies in my life and let his light shine in. He has removed my guilt and my shame and has given me purpose and that purpose is to serve him as Lord of my life. I know that not everything in life is perfect but with the Lord I want to be like Solomon who said that He is all together lovely. I spent many years believing that I was ok and on my way to heaven, only for the Lord to show me that I was lost and on my way to hell. Many people are going to miss Heaven by 18 inches because they had a HEAD knowledge and not a HEART knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Someday soon the Lord is gonna call his church out of this old world and we’re gonna be heading up to Heaven. When that day takes place, it will be a permanent vacation for the child of God. Do you know him as Lord of your life today? My prayer is that if you don’t know him as your savior that today you will ask him to come into your heart. I love you till the next time and may God bless.
