2019 is proving to be a reset for me, for my family. As someone who tries to listen to God, and then pray for what He reveals - what He puts on my heart - it's interesting that I'm hearing other people and churches in multiple countries saying the same thing. What is on God's heart for 2019? I want to know. We want to know. And then we want to work and pray and live for that, with the time that we have left on this earth.
December 2018 was a game changer for my family, as my mother died on this earth. We haven't lost her. We know she belongs to God because she accepted Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as her Savior, and lived her life for Him. She's gone to glory and her earthly body will follow when Jesus comes back, resurrected, restored, in ways we can't even imagine.
Someone asked me recently what happens to us when we die. They really wanted to know, having faced the death of a loved one. I know that God says if we believe in Him and in Jesus as the One who paid the price for our sins, died for us, for the sake of the world, that we will go to be with Him. Whether that is immediately when we die, or whether we will sleep until the resurrection of our bodies, isn't clear to me. But I know that I know that I know that God is the One who holds me in His hand, and no one and nothing can snatch me from Him. His word promises that:
John 10:27-29, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”
Romans 8:38-39, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
It matters what we believe and how we live. The Lord has called me to go up a mountain with Him, and I've come to realize it will be a slower paced journey than the running with God that I have enjoyed and feel like He made me for that. But I'm setting my face to seek Him, to go up that mountain with Him, to see what it is He has to show me. I wouldn't want to be any other place.
December 2018 was a game changer for my family, as my mother died on this earth. We haven't lost her. We know she belongs to God because she accepted Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as her Savior, and lived her life for Him. She's gone to glory and her earthly body will follow when Jesus comes back, resurrected, restored, in ways we can't even imagine.
Someone asked me recently what happens to us when we die. They really wanted to know, having faced the death of a loved one. I know that God says if we believe in Him and in Jesus as the One who paid the price for our sins, died for us, for the sake of the world, that we will go to be with Him. Whether that is immediately when we die, or whether we will sleep until the resurrection of our bodies, isn't clear to me. But I know that I know that I know that God is the One who holds me in His hand, and no one and nothing can snatch me from Him. His word promises that:
John 10:27-29, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”
Romans 8:38-39, “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
It matters what we believe and how we live. The Lord has called me to go up a mountain with Him, and I've come to realize it will be a slower paced journey than the running with God that I have enjoyed and feel like He made me for that. But I'm setting my face to seek Him, to go up that mountain with Him, to see what it is He has to show me. I wouldn't want to be any other place.