I was praying about how awful everything is and asked God how we can keep our spirits up in such dismal times. He answered by giving me the following:
First, a message … “I didn’t ask you to win; I only asked you to fight.”
Second, a vision. I saw a running race where my runner had lost. The winner of the race was jumping around, cheering for himself, as my runner finally passed the finish line … except he didn’t stop running.
The scene zoomed out and I realized that my runner wasn’t in a sprint race. He was in a long distance race. It didn’t matter at all that the sprinter had won the short race.
So, yeah, Obama and his creepy cronies are winning the sprint races and it’s discouraging. But we need to remember that OUR finish line is not of this world. It’s at the end of all things, when the just in Christ shall rise to everlasting life and the sinners will be sent to hell forever.
I am very comforted by this.
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Thank you for posting this. Angst has been building since I watched, transfixed, last Friday as everything played out. Last night was rehearsal for Church choir, and it actually helped more than Church did on Sunday. For some reason, my rehearsal singing has always been more prayerful than my “actual” singing.
I mean, I’m still going to the range tomorrow, and still studying for my ham radio license, and still starting on my own AR build . . . but getting it all into the eternal perspective really helps. ..
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A couple years ago, the Lord moved my heart to begin saving my glass juice bottles, scrubbed out and filling with filtered drinking water. Then the great apple harvest happened … still boggled about how one dwarf Empire could produce SO MUCH FRUIT in one season. We’re still canning! If basic services fail, we can at least help the neighbors with clean drinking water and some delicious, organic fruit.
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Could be worse, we could be lugging big rocks up the sides of pyramids …
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