Our life is like a Vapor
Kylee has a volleyball tournament in Mill Creek, Jessica is coaching and Glennis went to watch. I am home with God and the dog. I love to watch Volleyball, but with my constant spitting, and other issues, usually makes it hard for me to be out for longer than a couple of hours, so I stay home and type or read or listen to messages.
I have been thinking about heaven and eternity quite often; how our lives on this earth are only a vapor. We now see through a glass darkly, but then face to face (Jms 4:14) what we see is passing away (1Co 7:31; 1Jn 2:17). How quickly we judge things by what we see (1Co 13:12 ) Yet, Jesus says not to judge by appearance (Jn 7:24).
I tell my wife that when she puts on my custom neck brace, she is just putting on my costume. I mumble when I talk and look funny, so by sight I am rather peculiar, and people don’t really know what to make of me, because I don’t look or talk normal. I believe God gives us glimpses of true reality and eternal things, when we see someone or something that is strange or peculiar to us. These are times when God checks our hearts to see if the world is enticing us with it’s standards of judging by appearance, or if we will walk by God’s standard of love (1Jn 4:11-12) and walk by faith not by sight (1Co 5:7).
This world is hypnotizing us with it’s images and lusts, trying to rob and steal from us the riches God has for us in Christ, (Jn10:10, Eph2:7, Heb11:26). These earthly desires for material gain and physical beauty cloud our eternal perspective during our time on the earth. We have been bought with a price (the Shed Blood of Christ) therefore we glorify God in our bodies and spirit, which are God’s (1Co 6:20). Because He died for us, we no longer live for ourselves, but for Him (2 Cor 5:15). We are exhorted to redeem our time on the earth because the days are evil (Eph 5:16).
We have purpose as ambassadors of Christ to be used in Christ’s stead to reconcile all men to Him (2 Co 5:18-20). Jesus is coming back again to the earth for His Bride in Matt 25. We are counseled by Christ to buy from Him, gold tried by fire, that we may be rich and clothed in white raiment so that the shame of our nakedness doesn’t appear.Our eyes are to be annointed with eye salve so we can see (Rev 3:18) with our Spiritual eyes. This only happens when we die to self and willfully lay ourselves on the altar (Ro 12:1). We cast down our own opinions and vain imaginations bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (1Cor 5:10). This may seem impossible to do because it is; in the natural, but we have access to the supernatural through faith. Jesus said in, Mt 19:26 “with man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
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