Rapture?

I met a lady once three decades ago who told me, "If they believe in a Post-Tribulation, let them stay here. I'm going in the Rapture!".  I thought it to be somewhat funny at the time, but was it worth thinking about?  I had always believed in the Rapture and still do, so while I'm mulling it over in my mind I might as well write about it.  

Matthew 24:41 "Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left". There are many scriptures to prove the Rapture.  Mind you, I'm speaking from my belief as I see them. If this should happen today, where would you be Spiritually?  Would you be taken or would you be left? I have a Granddaughter who wrote once, "There are so many people in Church who don't believe that Jesus is coming back again".  She was eleven years old at that time.  Do we really believe it or are we so dulled in our senses to the Holy Spirit that we hardly pray or read His Word?  When I was young I was so caught up in doing work for God that I probably forgot that what He wanted most was "me".  Now, I'm old and He gives me the wisdom to know that my next breath comes from His hand.  

The Rapture is something I hadn't thought about in a long time.  Rather than debating when it will happen is really immaterial to me now.  Our senses have been dulled to the Holy Spirit and this is the real thing we should be wrestling with at this very moment. What does it mean to be "dulled"? It means to be bored.  We have become "bored" with God.  Going to Church is a great thing, but if it just makes us feel better about ourselves then something is amiss.  If we have lost the ability to repent when we have sinned against God, then we are in dire straights, my friend.  If we are just going through the motions of being a Christian then we might be in deep trouble with the Lord.

Let us ask God for the wisdom to we need to live as He wants us to and not as we want.

What Is Love?

Can you explain it?  I could be in the midst of one hundred men and still be in love with only one?No, we can't understand the mystery of love any more than we can understand the miracle of creation. We hear that "God loves us", but do we know how to connect to this truth?  It has been my experience that we think of God's love as human's love.  Too often we find that those of us who are saved see the Lord as a God who is not personal. But how can that be when His Word says that He has named every star in the heavens!! (Psalm 147:4 "He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names"). No, the thing we want to know is how do we connect with Him as a loving Father?  We tend to see Him as our earthly father, who did not love us tenderly.

It is hard for some people to receive love.  I'm one of them.  So if we fall into this category then we have the dilemma of always fighting our feelings in order to let God comfort us when we are sad or in times of not understanding why bad things are happening to us.  My heavenly Father always does something to prove His love for me, but the struggle comes first.  He is tender and loves us even when we do not trust Him to care for us.  His love and mercy are greater than we could ever imagine!!  I have seen Him in this great mercy so many times and I have marveled, but then the next time again I struggle.  He knows we are but dust and He makes no demands on us like our earthly fathers who only knew how to love with an earthly love.  One that shows very little compassion.

Satan desires to rob us of God's wonderful love.  He works on our feelings with his lies and we listen to him all too much.  I once asked the Lord what He was thinking while He was on the Cross and this is what He said to me, "I was thinking of you".  For me, the struggle ends when I recall the moment He spoke those amazing words to me!  Psalm 8:4 What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?