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| A picture of the landscape, taken whilst on a walk |
On my way back, I knew that I was going to arrive to a household that was brimming with excitement. You see, a few weeks before I left to go to Wales, we received a confirmation; Grandma was coming to England.
My Grandma lives in Jamaica, and she last visited England in 1980's for my parents wedding, and so this news stirred a massive excitement in my Mom!
So, when I got home, I walked into a house which was so clean! Things that had not been touched for years had suddenly been removed and placed into the bin, piles of books which had been placed in order of last read to not touched in years had now been sorted out into sizes. The fruits were arranged in the bowl in order of colour. The duster received the most attention it had in ages! You kind of get the picture... My Grandma was coming, and so the whole house was put in order, tidied, cleaned and put in more order so that Grandma would enjoy her stay!
The spiritual lesson and thought is twofold, firstly, when my Grandma is here, we will treat her as a queen, give her attention, and make sure she is in the most comfortable place she could wish to be in.
John 14:17-18, 20 says:
"Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you... At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you."
(John 14:17-18, 20)
Here we see a God who loves us so much that He wants to be WITH us, He wants to abide with US (blows me away really!) We see this again in 2 Corinthians 6:16:
"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
(2 Corinthians 6:16)
So, the fact that those who are brought with a price, and accept this (see 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20) have the Spirit of God living in them, then surely we should aim to treat this temple as best as possible, for One who is more important than anything else lives in there!
The second lesson is this:
My parents took a lot of time and effort to clean the house, and make it ready for my Grandma's stay... Someone far greater and more important than her is coming to this world once again! He has offered us the free gift of salvation (Romans 6:23) and so should we not then start cleaning our lives ready for His appearing?
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| An illustration of the Second Coming |
Friends, Jesus is coming again, coming for His people who...
"...live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."
(Titus 2:12-14)
The God who gave up all for YOU is coming back for YOU... An important occasion would you not say? So are you going to ask Jesus to take control and cleanse you? Or is He going to come to back to find a dusty person who just never gave Him the opportunity to cleanse him?
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure."
(1 John 3:1-3)- emphasis supplied
So this blog is going to be about thoughts and Bible studies about becoming the pure people that Jesus has done everything possible for us to be! I pray that you truly ask God to guide you into all truth, and that we can ask Jesus to cleanse us and make us ready for His appearing!
Adam Hazel
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