Forgiving is not a way to avoid pain, but a way to heal pain. Author unknown
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8-9 NASB)
What ever happened to all the hype about Jesus coming back around the year 2000? I first accepted Jesus Christ in my life as my Lord and Savior in 1983 and I remember back then how many said that somewhere around the turn of the century the Lord would be coming back. As time got closer and closer the false prophets kept up their predictions. Then around 1999 I started hearing of the return of Jesus mingled with Y2K predictions of large power outages and the crash of many computers. Like all of us, when I awoke on the first of January, the year 2000, nothing had changed except the fact that I was another day older. The Bible states that no man knows the time when Jesus will come back (Matt. 24:36), so why did so many think they had the answer? I think it has to do with time and how we as humans measure time. Peter said that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. So I think that God does not have a calendar, and if God does, it doesnt mean very much. Also God does not have a watch and if God does it doesnt matter what time it is. What is important to God is not time, but that none should perish! Gods love for us supersedes any system of time that man has devised to keep track of man and our lives. And of course its impossible to keep track of God. You cant measure God with a clock and calendar. I am so grateful that I was able to accept forgiveness from God through the finished work of the cross. I am grateful that time did not run out on forgiveness and love. I have seen several people come to the Lord in the last couple of years and their lives have been changed drastically. The testimony of their faith reverberates through my community. They were all alive at Y2K, what a loss it would have been for it all to have ended at that point in time. Not wishing for any to perish overpowers the clock on my wall. I am grateful that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves ...JRE
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what and ill-tempered man I am.
C. S. LEWIS
These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure.
Narcotics Anonymous BasicText, page 31
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:8-9 NASB)
What ever happened to all the hype about Jesus coming back around the year 2000? I first accepted Jesus Christ in my life as my Lord and Savior in 1983 and I remember back then how many said that somewhere around the turn of the century the Lord would be coming back. As time got closer and closer the false prophets kept up their predictions. Then around 1999 I started hearing of the return of Jesus mingled with Y2K predictions of large power outages and the crash of many computers. Like all of us, when I awoke on the first of January, the year 2000, nothing had changed except the fact that I was another day older. The Bible states that no man knows the time when Jesus will come back (Matt. 24:36), so why did so many think they had the answer? I think it has to do with time and how we as humans measure time. Peter said that one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. So I think that God does not have a calendar, and if God does, it doesnt mean very much. Also God does not have a watch and if God does it doesnt matter what time it is. What is important to God is not time, but that none should perish! Gods love for us supersedes any system of time that man has devised to keep track of man and our lives. And of course its impossible to keep track of God. You cant measure God with a clock and calendar. I am so grateful that I was able to accept forgiveness from God through the finished work of the cross. I am grateful that time did not run out on forgiveness and love. I have seen several people come to the Lord in the last couple of years and their lives have been changed drastically. The testimony of their faith reverberates through my community. They were all alive at Y2K, what a loss it would have been for it all to have ended at that point in time. Not wishing for any to perish overpowers the clock on my wall. I am grateful that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves ...JRE
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way, the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill-tempered; it only shows me what and ill-tempered man I am.
C. S. LEWIS
These defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure.
Narcotics Anonymous BasicText, page 31
