As We Celebrate Christmas
With the absence of time what will be the end result?
With all the articles pertaining to eternity, time before, and what will we find, the answer to the end results are still lingering in the mind of man. We have been assured, by God, that when we die his presence will be found at the first judgment by Christ. Of course what that hearing will be like no one dares to even know regarding the presence of our judgment.
Waiting to find the answer is not on the mind of too many people who are busy with daily emphasis on the stock market and how much they have accumulated in world trading. If more people would have spent the extra moments modern technology has provided them, on finding God in their lives, perhaps the questions that are hanging around as a mist would open their eyes to put God first before the numbers on the stock results of today.
There was a moment in history when most people had no idea what their labor today would do for them tomorrow. It was a time of work, sleep, and work again, day after day. There is no sin in working to take care of their family needs and hope that there remains a little to help their neighbor with. Again, for most people the necessities they needed were hard to get and have enough left over for charitable giving.
All of that for most has become past history, at least for many in a free society like the United States. Unfortunately, we now are living at a time that has become dog eat dog society. With the definition of this expression people will do almost anything to be successful, even if what they do harms other people.
Keeping all this in mind brings us to the very essence of what most are experiencing in their walk without God, forgetting what faith in God means, and the future of their very souls without God’s presence to hang onto.
Have we as a progressive society gone past the knowledge of who God is, and replaced his love and mercy into a crucible that is slowly imploding within itself? God’s love and mercy is a free gift to anyone who has sinned by neglecting his forgiveness. Reach out to his divine grace and the love and mercy is there right before us. It never left us; just waiting for our response to turn and feel God’s everlasting presence and our accepting voice saying; “My Lord and My God”. (Jn 20: 28).
Words of everlasting belief that awaits each of us on the day we open our eyes in the presence of Christ who will welcome all who believe in him. Time as far as a human entity will no longer be of any consequence. It is eternity we will have entered into and a life of peace that never was real in the former body we had before death took its place and left our soul in God’s hands.
Ralph B. Hathaway