When I see Jesus
19/04/09 17:41
Going though
life with all its disappointments and heartaches can
numb the heart and stagnate the passions. Folks have
even grown cynical or clinically depressed. I myself
find the fight against depression an ongoing battle
at times. Sometimes you think, “If I have to go
through one more battle…”
I am tired of hearing of all the violence, broken marriages and children coming up missing. I think I watch the news now hoping to see something that will correlate with prophecy and those feelings of excitement for the Lord’s return springs up and it is a little relief from the languor of life.
Please don’t get me wrong, I love life and I believe that Robin and I are living it to the fullest. We live in exciting times and count it a blessing to be working for Jesus in this capacity. But, what I am talking about is the wear and tear this life tries to oppress us with –believe it or not, the devil tries to beat the saints down so they’ll give up on the fight of faith and stop running the race to their Goal. I will not and neither should you!
So, at just the right time (because of the mercy and grace of God) we were blessed with an incident from a forty-eight year old Briton woman by the name of Susan Boyle. She is totally unattractive, somewhat “frumpy” and plain as plain can come. (I am speaking from a worldly perspective.) She has lived alone all her life taking care of her ill mother and she has never been kissed! When I think about it, Susan’s life should have never affected mine, we live in different parts of the world and neither one of us even knew or cared that the other existed. But God blessed Susan so she could bless the world and because of God’s mercy, I got to be one of those blessed. I first saw her standing on the stage of the Britain Has Talent Show. The three judges and the rest of the audience were all thinking the same thing, “What do we have here?” Really. This woman is as unassuming as a bowl of cheerios and just as bland –by mere appearances. But she wanted her chance to sing to the world and she got it! And she did! And she surprised everyone! This woman sang one of the most beautiful renditions of I Dreamed a Dream from the movie, Les Miserables. It moved me to tears. It brought up emotions that have laid dormant for weeks, months, years! I found myself shouting within my heart, “Bravo! Bravo!” The volcanic eruption of blessedness only found me looking for my next breath and a tissue to wipe my eyes. I remember wanting to touch Robin and rub her back, as we watched this scene unfold together. She was feeling the same thing and all we could do was sit in pure… I really don’t have the words to describe the experience!
And this is where my thoughts turned to Jesus. This is where I began to think about seeing Him for the first time and watching Him being crowned with many crowns, and hearing His voice shake the thresholds of Heaven, bringing every angelic being to bowed silence. What sort of rocket burst of emotions will we experience? What kind of breath-taking scene will we experience? I don’t know, but I can tell you this, it will be incomparably greater than anything experienced here on earth and in this life.
In fact, God has even planned to give us a new body so that we will be able to stand in His Presence and experience every last joyful emotion that this experience offers. I hope and pray that we all fight the fight and run the race together to the very end, and so, experience the beauty and majesty together on that great and glorious day!
I am tired of hearing of all the violence, broken marriages and children coming up missing. I think I watch the news now hoping to see something that will correlate with prophecy and those feelings of excitement for the Lord’s return springs up and it is a little relief from the languor of life.
Please don’t get me wrong, I love life and I believe that Robin and I are living it to the fullest. We live in exciting times and count it a blessing to be working for Jesus in this capacity. But, what I am talking about is the wear and tear this life tries to oppress us with –believe it or not, the devil tries to beat the saints down so they’ll give up on the fight of faith and stop running the race to their Goal. I will not and neither should you!
So, at just the right time (because of the mercy and grace of God) we were blessed with an incident from a forty-eight year old Briton woman by the name of Susan Boyle. She is totally unattractive, somewhat “frumpy” and plain as plain can come. (I am speaking from a worldly perspective.) She has lived alone all her life taking care of her ill mother and she has never been kissed! When I think about it, Susan’s life should have never affected mine, we live in different parts of the world and neither one of us even knew or cared that the other existed. But God blessed Susan so she could bless the world and because of God’s mercy, I got to be one of those blessed. I first saw her standing on the stage of the Britain Has Talent Show. The three judges and the rest of the audience were all thinking the same thing, “What do we have here?” Really. This woman is as unassuming as a bowl of cheerios and just as bland –by mere appearances. But she wanted her chance to sing to the world and she got it! And she did! And she surprised everyone! This woman sang one of the most beautiful renditions of I Dreamed a Dream from the movie, Les Miserables. It moved me to tears. It brought up emotions that have laid dormant for weeks, months, years! I found myself shouting within my heart, “Bravo! Bravo!” The volcanic eruption of blessedness only found me looking for my next breath and a tissue to wipe my eyes. I remember wanting to touch Robin and rub her back, as we watched this scene unfold together. She was feeling the same thing and all we could do was sit in pure… I really don’t have the words to describe the experience!
And this is where my thoughts turned to Jesus. This is where I began to think about seeing Him for the first time and watching Him being crowned with many crowns, and hearing His voice shake the thresholds of Heaven, bringing every angelic being to bowed silence. What sort of rocket burst of emotions will we experience? What kind of breath-taking scene will we experience? I don’t know, but I can tell you this, it will be incomparably greater than anything experienced here on earth and in this life.
In fact, God has even planned to give us a new body so that we will be able to stand in His Presence and experience every last joyful emotion that this experience offers. I hope and pray that we all fight the fight and run the race together to the very end, and so, experience the beauty and majesty together on that great and glorious day!
“Whom having not seen, ye love.
In whom, though now ye
see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory.”
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