"Fear God, Love God, Serve God": "Keep Our Eyes On The Prize"

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."

(Hebrews 12:1)

It's not so hard to run the race when we can see where it is we are going. Feast your eyes, Children of God, on the photograph above taken by NASA's Hubble Telescope on December 26. In 1994, a researcher was smuggled one top-secret photo which was taken and presumed to be "heaven." In an interview about the photo, Dr. Masson states, "From what I understand, the first images it received were nothing more than kaleidoscopic bursts of color and light. As adjustments were made and the focus sharpened, NASA analysts couldn't believe their eyes. After checking and rechecking the data, they concluded that the images were authentic." The Race has a Prize; the Prize has a throne; the throne has a King; and the City has a Gate ... Keep running, Saints; we must "Keep Our Eyes On The Prize."

We, who are running the race, are not surprised. John, on the Isle of Patmos, saw the New Jerusalem and heaven in a vision and recorded it in the Book of Revelation. We had a description from John and we've basked in our own imaginations of what "that City," to which we are going, looks like. But now, our Lord Jesus Christ has sent a photo to urge us on. Run, children, run; the image is complete, and the Prize is in view! Our Lord Jesus Christ said He was going away to prepare a place for us, that where He is, we may be also. Oh, it's our Hope; it's our JOY; it's our Peace; it's our Comfort ... we know where we're going; there is nothing to fear for the child of God!

"Where were you when I laid the

foundation of the world?"

(Job 38:4)

How small is "man" in the scope of things. God, space, the mighty, huge universe, and the vastness of "forever," are things humans must remember when we think "we" can run our own lives, when we think we have no where to turn, when our woes and troubles overwhelm us, when we think our lives do not matter. Your Creator wants to say to you who are reading this, who think you don't want to live, or who have a debilitating disease and you've given up hope:

Underneath are His everlasting arms!

The Lord Jesus Christ, our Holy God, has created a place for us so lovely; we can only dream of its Glory. He did that for you and me. Your life has purpose. He asked that question, "Where were you..." of Job, because He was trying to show him that he was not in control of his own life or problems, that there is ONE higher, greater, mightier than he, who rules the world, who creates and makes alive, who heals and delivers, who performs miracles, and restores ... He IS God! This old world is not our home; we justa' passin' through! That 80 or 90 years we spend here in earth is just a moment, compared to Eternity with our Almighty God. Heaven is more real than this. You ask, "How do you know?" The Book of Revelation says so; it describes Heaven for us in Chapter 21 ... Read it right here on this blog!

Give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, tell Him you're sorry for every sin you ever committed, and the sin of "wanting to die;" ask Him to fill you with His Spirit, and go and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ ... then, watch Him lift you from your ashes to a place of beauty and Joy. He Will! Your tears are captured; they are not shed and wasted. God bottles them up! You are important to Him; He died for You; He rose again to give You life, and that more abundantly. You say, "What I'm going through is not life; it feels like death." The Lord can give you peace, even in the darkest of circumstances, in the midst of disease, in the times we are too weary to bear it; He carries us; His left hand is under our heads, and His right hand embraces us; He is just a "whisper" away ... Call out to Him, Jesus ... Jesus ... He is near ...

I Pray for you now: Lord Jesus, please touch every

person who is reading this message. I rebuke and curse

cancer and every disease to its roots; I speak to tumors

and command them to dry up and disappear by the Name of

Jesus, the Blood of Jesus, and the Word of Jesus. I

speak to finances, people without jobs, wayward children of

families, and struggles with teenagers: line up with the

Word of God; you will have jobs - go apply again, teens

will turn around, and finances will be blessed - go give

something, however little it may be, to someone else in

need, and watch! What you sow, you will reap. I speak

to those who do not want to live - Taking your life will

take you to a place you do not want to be; I speak Hope

into you now! Call out to Jesus Christ, and Live!

"Solar System" by NASA Hubble Telescope

"The Eye of God" by Hubble Telescope

The heavens declare the Glory of God! All we have to do is look into the eternal space, stare in awe at millions of stars on a dark twinkling night, be drawn to the moon's glowing awe on a lonely eve of query, gaze with wonder at the painted hues of an orange and purple splashed sunset, and smile at the thrill of the cascading rainbow after a raging thundering storm, to realize that this is not all there is. There's a Holy hand that paints, draws, and splashes the heavens ... maybe it's to draw our eyes "up," to beckon His creation to their Creator to cause us to yearn for His arms reaching down, or maybe it's His heart of love grasping through the heavens for those He died for and longs for them to be with Him for all eternity.

The Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty God, loves You and me with an everlasting love; we cannot fathom the depth of His love for His creation. He's impatient for His Bride, the Church, to begin her honeymoon, and we must hasten His impatience; the Bride sets the wedding date ... Run faster, Saints; we must gather the sheaves quickly and "Keep Our Eyes On The Prize."

Every now and then, our Lord sends us a

Love note, a sign, in the sky above: