for HIS return
Perfect!Originally Posted by sunshine2777
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.
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!
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.
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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.
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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.
Last edited by kgreen20; August 27th, 2008 at 06:41 PM.
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.
everyday I tell the lord i want to go home!! I pray!
Christine
Amen and Amen!!everyday I tell the lord i want to go home!! I pray!
Christine
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No Bandwagon Here,
You put the words so well to what most of us are feeling in our hearts.
May God bless you for sharing this with us.
Betty
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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.
I am having a dreadful case of hurricanitis,
Only cure is the medicine of Rapturitis.
Please Come Quickly, LORD.
and get me ouuuuuuutttttttttaaaaaaaaahhhhhh here. Amen.
for HIS return
a song called "Home" by Blake Shelton keeps running through my mind. I know the song itself is not about going home to be with the Lord but I really like the tune, so I pretend it means to go home with the Lord, so I sing it to Jesus.
Sue
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That is so funny. I do the same thing. I really like that song, and even though it wasn't meant to, it really sums up going home to Jesus.
My favorite song -
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Homesick by Mercy Me
You're in a better place, I've heard a thousand times
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you
But the reason why I'm broken, the reason why I cry
Is how long must I wait to be with you
I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now
Help me Lord cause I don't understand your ways
The reason why I wonder if I'll ever know
But, even if you showed me, the hurt would be the same
Cause I'm still here so far away from home
I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now
In Christ, there are no goodbye
And in Christ, there is no end
So I'll hold onto Jesus with all that I have
To see you again
To see you again
And I close my eyes and I see your face
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place
Lord, won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
Won't you give me strength to make it through somehow
I've never been more homesick than now
Monster LOVES Jesus
Jesus better come back or I'll need an AA Meeting!!
Monster
Frodo My Bad Boy Went Home To Heaven. See you Soon Modie!!!
The Senior Member of the Peanut Gallery is ready to go HOME NOW!!!
Offshore for Jesus
LOL!
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Love that song. Homesick.
Here's another good one, No More Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vX3HHtytDo
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For the last month or so I too have been wanting to go home...hearing the sound of the trains horn, hoping...
I have wanting to go home for awhile but lately it has been really coming at me very hardI have a question, have any of you just had no desire but to go home for the past couple days maybe weeks?Because thats what I've been desiring everyday lately is to just go home and everyday I find myself wanting to hear that trumpet more and more, just wondering all your thoughts on this.
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