A wonderful illustration from Ron Hutchcraft. We should all take this to heart as one day we will be with God for ETERNITY, not just 70 or 90 years but a billion time a billion!
That's a long time but time does not exist in Heaven nor with God. We need to take time to just simply enjoy jut being the One we love, being in their presence, whether it is your spouse, son or daughter, or Jesus or our heavenly Father.
Here's how Ron puts it:
Five thousand miles in one month! That's not too bad if you're in an airplane, but that's how far I drove one summer and still often do. (Although I should say my wife does a lot of the driving these days.) But back then I just about ran the wheels off of our van driving from one conference, or speaking assignment, or college trip to another. Let's see, if I averaged 50 mph, that means I drove for 100 hours. Oh, man!
Well, it was a great time, it really was. You know why? My wife was with me. We finally got to be together for extended blocks of time with no phone, no errands to do, no people to take us away. We didn't talk all the time, although we had a lot to catch up on. We probably could have been catching up for about 100 hours. Right?
Sometimes we just played music, or occasionally we would just spontaneously pray about something together. Or a lot of times we just enjoyed the silence or some of the beautiful scenery. And then every once in a while you'd hear the silence punctuated with an occasional comment or just an "I love you." I think my wife spoke for both of us when she described what was so nice about all those 5,000 miles. She said, "It was just so great being in your company; just the two of us."
I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Just the Two of Us."
You know, relationships need time together and especially times when there's like no agenda. It really enriched me to have that kind of time with my wife during all that driving. There's another relationship that might be a need, maybe desperate need of some "just being" time.
Our word for today from the Word of God comes from Psalm 42, out of the heart of David, verses 1 and 2.[co;or=red] "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God; for the living God."[/color]
And then he asks this powerful question, "When can I go and meet with God?"
That's the cry of a believer for the greatest emotional need he has - to be intimate with his Lord. When is the last time you just sat down with Jesus and enjoyed His company? Or do you only see Him when you have a list for Him?
Jeremy was over at our house with his parents, and he'd been downstairs playing. Suddenly he came into the living room and kind of sat down in his Dad's lap, and his Dad liked that. His Dad kind of wrapped his arms around him, started to cuddle him, and Jeremy didn't settle down; he just kept wiggling. He looked up at his Dad and he said, "Daddy, you know I'm not sitting here just because I want to be with you." Great! Yeah, he needed something.
Wow!
How often is that me with my Heavenly Father, or you maybe? In fact we say, "Well, I'm not here just because I want to be with You; I've got my list. I need something."
But you're growing up as a child of God when you want to be with God simply just to be with God. You say, "Ron, I don't really feel that way yet." Well, that's okay. Tell Him that. Ask Him for the desire for His company; this passion that David had just to be with Him. "When can I go and meet with God?"
We have the indescribable privilege to cuddle in the lap of the King of the Universe; to call Him "Daddy"; to let Him comfort our battered emotions; to speak new ideas and insights into our quiet heart. He can't do that while you're talking to Him. To be real, real close, you can't just run in and run through your "pleases" and "thank yous" and then run out. You can do all that, but then stay a little longer.
I think you and Jesus will feel the same way about it. It's like my wife said, "It was so great just being in your company, Lord, just the two of us."
My friends, as we approach this day we celebrate as being the day that GOD came down to man and the ANGELIC PROCLAIMED Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men, because the Son of God left HIS THRONE WILLINGLY AND GLADLY to take upon himself FLESH and blood, and to offer HIMSELF UP upon the CROSS as the only acceptable payment for OUR SINS AND for our redemption to GOD, let us DRAW CLOSER and more intimate in our relationship with HIM, the KING OF KINGS and LORD of LORDS, our SAVIOR, OUR REDEEMER, OUR LORD, and our friend, our very dearest and best friend.
Rejoice because your redemption draweth nigh!
Won't you spend some time alone with HIM and just be content and happy to be in HIS HOLY PRESENCE?
It won't be long now. Jesus promised HE would come back for us. When HE ascended up into heaven in the sight of thousands of witnesses, HE SAID "I GO to prepare a place for, and if I go to prepare a place for you I will COME AGAIN and receive YOU unto MYSELF< that where I AM, there you maybe also".
He is coming for us and all the signs of things going on in the word are pointing to it. The upheaval in the middle east, Israel, and our societies clamoring for more and more lust, sin, flesh, whoredoms, calling what is wrong right and right wrong.
The BIBLE said that "so as in the days on Noah, so shall these times be." This is the way it was in Noah's day also.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness and of God's message and NOBODY wanted to hear it. NOBODY.
The people of GOD are under assault, Christianity is under assault from our own government. Preachers are under assault. Many are falling away and spreading a watered down message that feels good to the ears but is damning to the souls of men and women.
Yes my friends, the time is drawing very near.
Jesus said NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME. NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.
If you have never asked Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins, and repented of them, turning to God and confessing them and asking HIM alone to save you and be your savior, NOW IS THE TIME to do so.
Jesus is coming. He will split the eastern sky and the TRUMPET of GOD will sound, and the dead in CHRIST will rise first, and those of us which are alive and remain will be caught up in the air and rise and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
It will be too late then. Your opportunity will have passed by to spend eternity in heaven with the GREAT and GLORIOUS GOD of HEAVEN and ALL the UNIVERSE.
You will be left behind and ultimately will be judged at the Great White Throne before God HIMSELF and judgment pronounced, "depart ye cursed into everlasting fire! I never knew you!"
You will be cast into the lake of Fire and you will burn in torment for eternity because you would not believe on the SON of GOD to save you from your sins.
You rejected JESUS.
THAT is the sin unto death. The unpardonable sin. NOTHING can save you from the punishment of everlasting torment in t he Lake of Fire because of your rejection of Jesus.
Do NOT put it off another second my friend. Ask Jesus to forgive you. Ask HIM to save you. Place your entire trust in HIM ALONE because HE already paid your sin debt himself on the cross. You simply need to have faith in HIM as a little child, believeing that HE alone will save you and wash your sins away and place HIS ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS upon YOU and introduce you to the FATHER as ONE of HIS OWN.
Be free from this burden today. You never know when your appointed with death will be OR when Jesus will come for us. Either event will be too late for anyone who has not accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
This is the REASON we celebrate the BIRTH of The KING!
HE IS VERY LIFE and HE ALONE IS WORTHY of WORSHIP and of PRAISE.
Be saved today and know the peace and joy of the Savior this Christmas season. You wil never ever regret it!
May God bless you as you receive Christ as your Savior and I will see YOU in HEAVEN one day!
Blessings to you in Jesus Name,
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