Month: October 2020

Why I Wrote No Longer Mine

I wrote No Longer Mine because of what I read in my Bible in Luke 20:34-36,where Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like angels, They are Gods children, since they are children of the resurrection.”

Whenever I read that passage of Scripture, I broke down in tears. I had never seen that passage before, and I have read the New Testament more times than I can count on my hands and feet. I had always thought that when you get married, you were also going to be married in heaven. I didn’t understand it at first, but after reading it again I understood. I know that we are all God’s children and He loves us very much, but what about how we feel about how things are; that is a very hurting feeling knowing that we will no longer be married to the one we were married to down here.

Life is precious and we should not take it for granted. Everyday is a gift from God that we get to worship Him, praise Him, and spend time with the ones that we love. Tomorrow isn’t promised to us. God in His great mercy grants us another day, another chance to make things right with the ones we love if there is division in families. He gives us time to get our lives right before He calls us home. He gives us time to get to know Him more through His Word.

He teaches us how to love one another, forgive one another, comfort one another in times of sorrow, to have faith when we are at our lowest point, how to be encouraged in Him, how to keep going when we want to give up, about everything we need to know about our entire lives. We should want to strive to be more like Jesus Christ our Savior. We are joint heirs with Him, we are family.

We will get to see Him face to face one day, but for now we must seek Him while He may be found. He doesn’t want any of us to be left behind. We need to seek Him with all of our hearts. We seek Him by praying, by seeking Him in the Word. When we need wisdom, knowledge and understanding, we can go to Him; He will always give it to us we just have to ask.

With the way things are in the world today, we should be praying and seeking His face everyday. This country need God to step in and fix all of this craziness. Make things right how it should be. I wish that sin never entered the world back in the Garden of Eden. Everything would be as it ought to be. There would be peace, love, jou, happiness, and everyone would get along. There would be no wars, destruction,devastation, unnecessary killing, hate, envy, jealousy, and all of the things that are an abomination in the sight of God.

Well, this is just how I feel. May God bless you all, and keep you all. If you have not asked Jesus to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior, do it today because tomorrow is not promised.

To Him that is able to do more than we can ask or think, and to Him that was and is and is to come , our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. ©2020

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No Longer Mine

I remember the very day that I met the man that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I fell in love very hard…haead over heels… I never knew love could be so very real. We have gone through so many things since we became husband and wife. Our relationship has been tested and tried, but we have come through it all. Yes, there have been more teardrops shed from the both of us, but it would take me a lifetime to count them all; and even if I could I would probably never finish.

There has been happy times just as well that out weigh some of the bad times. There have been joyous occasions that will be always remembered by the both of us. Years has come and gone and life has happened in more ways than one; traumatic events that has taken us all by surprise. Some more than others but life goes on. We have to learn to let things go that hurt us and forgive those that hurt us as well.

I know that we promised one another that we would never leave one or the other, but that was just temporal minds speaking an untruth. We are going to part ways in time, but in God’s own time. It really pains me to know that we may not even get to say good-bye to each other.

It pains me to know that he will no longer be mine, and I will no longer be his; we will not even remember being married to one another. Will our children remember us? Will they know who we are when they come to join us? Will God help us to remember one another? Why is marriage so important here on earth if we can’t be together as husband and wife in heaven? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.

Will our children still be our children, will we still be a family? It brings tears to my eyes because I feel that we won’t be a family anymore. I cannot help but cry. I love us, and I want us all to be together. Lord knows how I feel. I cannot hide my feelings from the One that created me. Maybe one day it will all make since to me, but right now I just don’t understand.

When we got married, I thought that it would be forever…for all eternity…but I was wrong. It’s only for the time that God let us live together down here. No longer mine for always…for keeps; simply because we all belong to someone else, and that someone else is God our Creator. No longer mine, no longer his. We are all temporary.

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Exodus 2:10

Exodus is one of my favorite books in the Bible. I see God’s strength and power. I see Him as He is. God Almighty! The Great I AM!

Exodus 2:10- So she called his name Moses saying,” Because I drew him out of the water.” Moses means,”to draw out.” Moses was a Hebrew. In Hebrew, Moses means,”He who draws out”.

Eventhough the people rebelled against God after He had delivered them from Egypt, He was still with them. They felt like it would have been better for them to turn and go back to Egypt because they were wondering in the desert for forty years. They felt like Moses had led them there to die in the desert. What they didn’t realize is that God was their deliverer and their provider. They didn’t realize that for all of those years God was taking care of them; just like He takes care of us today. He supplies all of our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.

Had they realized that, they would not have been complaining about what they didn’t have, and been thankful for what they did have. They had God with them but their hearts were so hard that they didn’t know how to be thankful. We now today in this world can sometimes be that way when we take our eyes and hearts off of the one who created all things. We need to understand and realize that the same God that delivered the Israelites from their bondage will still deliver us from whatever we are going through. He’s our ever present help. He will never leave us nor forsake us.

Sometimes life can make a person feel like they’re in Egypt. We feel like there is no relief from the hurt and pain that we go through. We often question God about all of the things that we go through being His children. We ask God if He’s ever going to make things right when we’ve been wronged by someone we love, by a boss, or even a friend? We ask God when will He do lots of things for us. We must first pray about whatever, or whomever is causing the problem. We must then believe that God hears us, and we must leave it, not pick it back up. God’s time is different from our time. God does things when the time is right, not when we want Him to. We want things answered right then, but God knows best.

God may not give us everything that we want, but He provides for us everything that we need to survive! Such as food, clothing, water, and shelter. He knows all of our hearts desires. He knows every hair on our head. When we complain about the things that we don’t have, we complain against God. It is not right for us to do those things, because it is a sin against God. Everytime we complain about something for whatever reason, God hears it, even our every thought. There’s nothing that’s to big or to small for God. He delivered the Israelites from their bondage from Egypt with His outstretched arm, and with a mighty hand. He defeated their enemies by drowning them in the Red Sea. The Israelites walked through the Red Sea on dry ground and not one person, or animal was left behind.

God is our vendicator. He’ll go through everything with us, no matter what it is. He didn’t leave them in the desert alone, and He will not leave us alone. There are times when we may feel that His presence is not with us, there may be times when we feel He’s not listening to our prayers, there are times when it seems like there is just no answer to anything; but what we need to know is that He’s just giving us a little more time to pray. He wants us to be still and know that He is God alone.

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