Mortality

Mortality

- Psalms 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am .   (kjv)

As I realize my own frailty; my own mortality; my own certain death more and more, I think of eternity.  What shall it be like for me?

I am past the judgment for sin.  I have a certain home in heaven with my Saviour.  Praise God!  I will not receive the just reward for my iniquities.   Oh, thank You,  LORD!  Yet there is a judgment I will go through: that for rewards.

If God had not told us of the judgment seat of Christ, it would not matter.  There would be an understood judgment that would happen anyway.  The smile of my Saviour's face.  The,  "Welcome home, " that I will get.  The, "Well done thou good and faithful servant," I could get.  How will it go for me in eternity?

I think on these things when the fact of my mortality begins to set in.  I think on these things when the fact of Jesus' return sets in.  I think of these things when the reality of my seeing Jesus hits home.  Will it be with joy or regret?  Certainly I have much to regret.  There are many people to whom I have not given the gospel.  There are many people who's blood is on my hands through simple disobedience.  There are many people who I had the opprtunity to warn of the coming destruction, and refused to do so.  I must correct that.  I must not fear what man can do to me.  I must not be in the fear of man, but place all my trust in God. 

Pressing on,

Mark Hebert
Psalm 16:11 - R U in His presence?

Yet Not I

Yet Not I - Isaiah 10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.  10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it , and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man :  10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.  10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.   (kjv)

Believer or not, but especially the believer; it is not I that doeth it, but Christ.   My blade may be sharp,  the steel strong and clean,  my handle strong,  the axe head firmly attached,  but I have no ability to raise up.  I have no ability to drive into the tree.  I have no ability to come back out of the trunk once embedded in it.  Even the condition of my blade and handle are outside of my control.  God, in His great mercy and graciousness has only given me the ability to praise Him, to rejoice in His using me, and to ask Him to continue to do so.

Oh, my Lord God in heaven,  sharpen this blade,  strengthen this handle, keep me firmly attached,  and purge the steel that I may be used by Thee for the hewing and gathering of wood for Thy house.  To the praise, and honor, and glory of my Lord; Thine only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. 

Pressing on,

Mark Hebert
Psalm 16:11 - R U in His presence?