My Strength

I have often had the kids in the youth group want to know what we are going to look like in Heaven. I honestly don't know. The Bible tells us that we don't yet know what we shall be but we shall be as He (JESUS) is. Yet, that isn't really definitive, so, I don't know.

I do know that, especially as I get older, that this physical body doesn't perform now as it did years ago. So, I always tell them that I'd like to think that we are all going to be the equivalent of twenty-five-years-old. At twenty-five, I had live long enough to know that I didn't know everything but I did know a little about a few things. And, physically speaking, at twenty-five, I was as fit as I had or have ever been. I couldn't bench press a truck but I could lift the tire. You know what I mean?

Today's word is from Nehemiah 8:10, NIV, which reads, "Nehemiah said, 'Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our LORD. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

There are several things to really like about this verse, enjoying good food, sending some to those who have nothing, GOD'S holy day, no need to grieve...but, the thing I want to talk about is our strength. There are times when this old world can knock you down and kick the snot out of you. There are times when it seems that the only ways things could ever be worse is if something happened, and then, that something happened. It is during these times that we have to reflect on GOD and His goodness and strengthen ourselves by remembering that we have JESUS in our hearts and that He will see us through.

I can tell you that it is much easier to say it than to do it but if we would just reflect on the good things GOD has given us, especially the promise that eternity is going to be worth it all, it will strengthen us to go a little further.The joy of the LORD is our strength.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T