Is This as Good as it Gets?

I've just spend 17 hours working. All day long I had the luxury of spending quality time with the Lord Jesus. By the time I parked my truck I was excited to jump on the internet and see how everyone was doing. I looked at my blog to see if anyone had parked their mouse over my gem. A few had dropped by. But they left no comments. I checked the email to see what might be there. I think I caught the butt end of an electronic spider leaving the screen. But that was all the activity I could detect. I went to God Rev and looked around a bit. I found a few things of interest there that I'll check out later. And, finally, I clicked on face book to see what people were doing all day.

I gotta tell ya people, it's such a let down to see such dribble come from humans. I don't mean to run folks down. But having spent such a long time with the God of truth, then to listen to what people think is important, wow! What a radical difference. How will it be come the day of judgment when God examines every idle word we have spoken and judges us by them? We thought we had a handle on what's important. How shocking it will be for the vast majority.

I've got my own troubles with holiness. I'm not a saint, as some consider saints. But I know where I'm going on that day. How about you? I mean, I don't just believe (as hope believes) that I am saved. The God who made me has confirmed it in my soul. How about you? When I think of my death, there's an attitude of excitement. To me, it's a doorway into the presence of the One I love. What about you?

I don't judge you folks. Frankly it wouldn't matter a gnat's nostril if I did. But I can tell you a truth. What most people think is important will surely follow them to the throne of God. Be warned. It will not go well with most folks.

I posted this on a couple other sites. But I thought it might be of value to post it among others who share the sharpness of this view.

"What no eye has seen, nor ear heard;
nor has the human heart even conceived
what GOD has prepared for those who
love HIM--these things GOD has made
know to us by HIS Spirit; for the
Spirit searches everything; even to
the depths of GOD."
GOD brings us hope beyond imagining,
and joy beyond describing, and peace
beyond understanding.

And such joy, beyond speaking, was in the cab with me. Now I am set with a holy sadness. Who was it who suggested that we should ask God to break our hearts with the things that break His? How can a man love God and not begin to know those things that cause Him pain?

How horrible it will be for so very many I've come to know here. The promises remain. And the joy is real. But the sadness of their plight overwhelms. Perhaps this is how it should be for all God's people while they walk this dark place. How dare we celebrate while so many sink in the mud of sin.

Lately, I've been considering the words in Jeremiah 23v29.

'Is not My word like a fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?'

And since it is, that '...I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.' Eze 36v26, should it not then be that God's word should break us?

We should be ready for death. Or should I say life? This current life is so fleeting, so passing, that we should be making preparations for our future home.

Don't we want to see God, to be with Him?

Then forget the things of this world.

They are so passing, so very passing.