November 6, 2019 – Click here to listen
As we flounder along watching the people of our country divide into separate camps with leaders intent upon destroying each other, our nation is sinking into the mire of bitterness, immorality, loneliness, hopelessness, addiction, uncivility, sexual perversion, and corruption. Homelessness abounds in major cities with streets littered with human feces, dirty needles, garbage, and stoned drunken broken people strewn about laying in the streets awaiting death. God is openly mocked, and righteousness is twisted to mean what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right.
Geez . . . Almost makes you want to jump off a bridge or something . . . but God!
My Bible study today has taken me to Revelation chapter 21. It is one of the most encouraging chapters in the Bible. God has finally set things right! It is the moment we long for when the new world in which we will live is eradicated of sin and evil. The tribulation is over, Satan has been defeated and thrown in the lake of fire and is gone forever and the former things have passed. We will inhabit a place of indescribable beauty, gigantic proportions with Jerusalem covering 2.25 million square miles, a godly city with no need of a temple or church for God will be there, and a place of never-ending life. No tears, death, sorrow, nor crying will occur there, all of that will be gone and forgotten.
Like the Apostle Paul I’m torn with strongly desiring to go there immediately to be with the Lord, but I also feel great compassion for all those who do not know Jesus and will miss out. I have some friends who based on their own admission and actions will not be there, and I feel sadness for them, but also to those I’ve never even met. Oh how I wish I could find the right words to say to convince them to follow Jesus, but in the end it is up to them and their free will to decide. I can, however, give them the other side of the story (that in our secular society is being told less and less) so at least they can make an informed decision.
After the recent success with offering my testimony in New Orleans I’ve made the decision to get back on the speaking trail again; I also intend to write a couple more books and be more active in evangelism at every opportunity including prison ministry. I want to do my part in the harvest of a vast field of human souls in which the laborers are few, but the opportunities are many. I pray for opportunity, health, and stamina to do the travel . . .
There is just one thing that troubles me about the Apostle John’s vision of heaven. Unfortunately, there will be no ocean there. It is a small price to give up the ocean and I dearly love and appreciate just having the opportunity to be with Jesus, but it is apparent that I should get busy fishing down here and I will leave a little time for that as well . . .
Rev. 21:4
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”