Want to go home.......

[waitin]

Just another thought that may help. As believers, we strive (or are supposed to) have the heart of Christ, to be more and more like Him. The more refined the light is against the darkness (evil and good) in our world, the more we hate sin and can understand how He feels about it. It should also increase our compassion for the lost. All the more Christ-like. :)

Perfect!

[BBB]

BBB, have you read the Pilgrim's Progress? That story continues to be an inspiration for me. It is where I first saw the image of sin as being a pack that we must carry, and can lay at the cross.

No, I haven't read the book, but I saw a film based on it about 20-25 years ago. Yeah, I had forgotten all about that. Your story though, made me think of it in terms of soldiers. And that's what we all are, soldiers of the cross. Amen brother, laying this sin burden down...oh man! My heart is full right now! Praise His Holy Name!:dance

[Beagler]

Often times my heart literally aches with the desire for Jesus to appear, and I think "come now Lord, please come now". No, that desire is not because my life is full of trials and tribulations. The Lord has blessed me with a wonderful wife, a cozy home, reasonably good health, and a good paying if not very rewarding job. The problem for me these days is that when I look at the world around me, even if a cool breeze is blowing and the sun is shining in a cloudless sky, I can't help but feel that everything is just "wrong". This is a fallen and corrupted world we live in, and it is not now how our blessed Creator intended it to be. I long for the day when all of creation will be redeemed and remade, myself included. I can especially relate to other posters who have said that one of their great desires is to finally and forever be free of this sinful earhtly body and be clothed with a pefect heavenly one. I am sick to death of sin, my own in particular and the world's in general.

Finally, I covet everyone's prayers. As I observe the fast approach of our Lord and Savior it gets harder and harder to give myself to my earthly job as I know a good Christian should. It is hard to get excited about shuffling a few more papers when I know that soon it will no longer matter. So please pay for me that I continue to fruitfully occupy until He comes.

[ArkieTuzi]

Oooohhh! I am so homesick! I want to see Jesus in clouds. But then I think of all the people who haven't turned to Him, and it urges me to patience....My heart prays that He will come soon (the evil in this world is so heart-sickening.) But aloud I pray that we have more time, for those sweet people who just don't know Him. I also pray that I am found "worthy": that I have done all that I can so that when He does come, I am not ashamed of myself. So, in a way, I also fear His coming, but I know that when He does finally come, it will be in the best time for everything to be fulfilled.

[kgreen20]

Just remember that the souls of a whole generation of children are now at stake. Any further extended delay by Jesus will end up costing them their souls. The schools and government, sad to say, will see to that, as well as the culture itself.

No matter how long Jesus waits, there will always be more people in need of salvation. Sooner or later, there has to be a cut-off point.

[jgreen0227]

I thank God that he sees us as perfect! When he looks at us, he looks through his perfect son. We still struggle with sin and we will until we are given the new incorrupable body like Jesus has. Sin hurts us while we are here....guilt, condemnation, it even can kill us if gone too far, but thanx all be to Jesus that he does not see us that way. God remembers our sin no more.

[christine21]

everyday I tell the lord i want to go home!! I pray! :)

Christine

[Born Again 2006]

everyday I tell the lord i want to go home!! I pray! :)

Christine

Amen and Amen!!:rapture

[Betty]

No Bandwagon Here,

You put the words so well to what most of us are feeling in our hearts.:thumb
May God bless you for sharing this with us.:hug
Betty

[twinkle]

Just remember that the souls of a whole generation of children are now at state. Any further extended delay by Jesus will end up costing them their souls. The schools and government, sad to say, will see to that, as well as the culture itself.

No matter how long Jesus waits, there will always be more people in need of salvation. Sooner or later, there has to be a cut-off point.

How true! God's word will be fulfilled, it is written therefore it is so.

I know God's timing is perfect and I look forward to His coming for us in the clouds every day.