Do you think they are planning a fake alien invasion? Or it will be a real demonic one? I have heard it both ways. Maybe that is why there is a possibility of a June/July airline shutdown. My brother works in the airline industry and I checked with him. He hadn't heard anything. I was thinking they may go whole hog on trying to scare us with the Indian variant and shut down the airlines to try to panic us more....to make us run for the jab. TR, it’s very hard for me to imagine seeing Jesus face to face, I have perfect peace that He loves me and died for me, but why should He, after all He is God creator and I fall far short ... I dream of the day when we will leave, and as mentioned (for personal reasons) tremble at what the next few months may hold if we stay, yes I know God will be with us all thru an extended future here but, I am a very selfish person and long for peace, joy, righteousness. Sometimes I can relate to the two year old tantrum of kicking and screaming, please get us out of here Abba! I feel His closeness and long for God to just shine his glory over me! Soon for sure :prayer-hands: Driven by the hope of His return and the growing ungodliness, our longing only deepens! Quite honestly, I don't relish difficult times, suffering or martydom, but am consigned to His will! Take this cup from us Lord, but Your will be done! TR Yep, me either brother .... two verses come to mind .... 1 Corinthians 2:9 “But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— Psalm 34:17-19 “When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. :prayer-hands: Five Doves post says watch all the way to sunset on the 19th. (Like we are going to stop watching, Ha!) Or when JD says "The rapture is closer than you can imagine!" and I just laugh and think "JD, you haven't met any Ritanians, have you!" Lol Even Tucker Carlson had a segment about UFO's recently. TR said: Sometimes when I get still and think about how close we are, I tremble! I so agree! With every breath I wait for Jesus to redeem us. I want that with every cell of my being. But I am also dismayed at the thought of seeing Him face to face. What am I that He should spend on moment on me? I am so broken and sinful, unable to be anything but that. What could I possibly say to Him? I watched the first four episodes of The Chosen, Season Two this past weekend and knowing full well that Jonathan Roumie is just a man acting in a play, but it still made me think on Jesus and how it will be to actually see Him with no obstructions. I love the way Roumie portrays Him. Strong, yet so compassionate. It just makes me want to be with Him all the more! But how will that moment be? Knowing that He knows far better all the ways I've sinned, failed, than I do, what will He say? What could I possibly bring Him? Then I remember that being one of His is to be broken, failed, sinful. Still, it goes against the way we as humans think and until that moment FINALLY arrives, I will still live apprehensively of that day. Blue said: I am at total peace and calm with leaving. Seems to me that the gals as a whole are much more at ease and at peace with this than a lot of the men, myself included. In the natural world, and in the home that I grew up in, the daughters all had struggles with the mother whereas me, the son, always had, and still have, a very close relationship with her, whereas sons have more struggles with the dad than the girls. I always said that one of my sisters could crawl in "daddy's lap" and ask for a Ferrari and he'd find a way to give it to them. For me, pthhhhhhhh! (is that how you type a raspberry sound?) it was hard work. I'm very thankful that my earthly dad and I have developed a very close relationship in my adult years and I'm very blessed that he is still with us, but my view on Who God is comes from my childhood view of who my dad was. Because of the pressures he was under in those days he had a quick temper and so that is the image I developed of Who God is. I think most guys have a much more skewed view of Who God is because of our earthly fathers whereas my sisters are uninhibited to go before God. He's Daddy after all! I cannot wait to see Him clearly!!! I am a very shy person and would normally be very nervous. I just think about that Jesus loves me so much that he died for me. He already sees me covered by His blood in my perfected state. He remembers my sin no more. Am I wrong? I think we will be rewarded when we see him, no judgement. I mean no condemnation. Indeed Johanan, none of us can bring anything of worth, value or reward! But He knowing we have been tried and sifted, we shall never again rebel against Him! Once His, we are His forever! This seems quite gratifying to the Lord! TR
