Eleven Years Later

January 23, 2007

After reading this again many years later
it is amazing how true it still is.

I have seen many dear friend’s children (older kids) in accidences
- one isn’t suppose to live the night -
yet thought prayer he began high school after a few weeks.
His head had been opened up, stitches all the way across the top
and down the side. Today he is married.

Two nights later, while the first young man is still in the hospital
his mom calls in the early morning
to tell us about another young man 23 years olds,
married with a child on the way, has died in another car accident
and he wasn’t even hurt badly. They were both good friends of ours.

There are many more stories like this.

I have seen love ones protected from great harm
and healed in an instant.
And others go thorough injuries and slow healing.
Some people say, “God is healing”
and others say, “God doesn’t work that way.”
It has to be now or it isn’t healing.

I think from living overseas a few times that the western mind set
thinks everything needs to happen now.
Isn’t it interesting how we have all these modern conveniences
and yet we have less time for each other.
People today are more isolated and lonely.

I wonder can we slow down? If we don’t do it willing
and with propose –choosing to slow down.
Will we be made to slow down with poor health
and lost relationships. Today can we choose people over
– money made, toys played, and the solitude of my space.

Jesus our Messiah died for us. Death is not given for junk
but for the things we value. We are created in the image of GOD.
Nothing on this earth is of more value then the life of a human being.
We don’t stop with death, Jesus rose from the dead
and sits at the right hand of the Father.

Hebrews 10:
11-18 Every priest goes to work at the altar each day,
offers the same old sacrifices year in, year out,
and never makes a dent in the sin problem.

As a Priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it!

Then He sat down right beside God (the Father)
and waited for His enemies to cave in.
It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person
to perfect some very imperfect people.
By that single offering, He did everything that needed to be done
for everyone who takes part in the purifying process.

The Holy Spirit confirms this:

This new plan I'm making with Israel
isn't going to be written on paper,
isn't going to be chiseled in stone;
This time "I'm writing out the plan in them,
carving it on the lining of their hearts."

He concludes,
I'll forever wipe the slate clean of their sins.
Once sins are taken care of for good,
there's no longer any need to offer sacrifices for them.

19-21 So, friends, we can now
—without hesitation—walk right up to God (our Father),
into "the Holy Place."
Jesus has cleared the way
by the blood of His sacrifice,
acting as our Priest before God (our Father).
The "curtain" into God's presence is His body.

22-25 So let's do it—full of belief,
confident that we're presentable inside and out.
Let's keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going.
He always keeps His word.

Let's see how inventive we can be
in encouraging love and helping out,
not avoiding worshiping together as some do
but spurring each other on,
especially as we see the big Day approaching


I say, "Amen and amen" to this.
Love, Cindy