Good morning, and God's morning to you. It didn't cool off last night, that is usually the first sign of the summer season. Listen to me go on! In many areas it can be 95 in the daytime and 93 at night because of the humidity. Out here we have a very short humid season when if it is 95 in the day, it may only cool down to 70 at night. That is the extent of our suffering! I know many areas, Camp Lejeune was one, where if someone has an air conditioner it runs day and night. The mornings do not have the coolness that we experience out here and the dew point is almost always high. If there is one thing that I can take from my time at Camp Lejeune it is an appreciation of a cool morning during the hot time of the year... and not having sweat running down all over my body just from standing outside. The funny thing is that you might think that we would have said, "it doesn't get any worse than this" at that time, and we did. However, then we got to go to Grenada.
Some would think that Hell cannot be any worse than some of the things, suffering, or conditions, that they have seen on earth, but they simply are refusing to believe what God says in his word. Believing in Jesus means that you believe what it says in his word, and his word says that Hell does exist and that you do not want to go there! I think one of the greatest examples, and he is always the greatest example, is when Jesus cried out on the cross. I believe that the separation from our Father is what made our Lord cry out. He didn't cry out from the scourging, the torture on the cross, or any other human punishment, but he did cry out from the separation as he bore our sins upon himself. That is what Hell is, and why we should fear the one who can send us there. We do not want to experience that separation! The Good News is that the way to avoid that and gain eternal life is in Jesus. The one who can destroy both body and soul in Hell is the one who took it upon himself to redeem us from that end. What an amazing thing! All we need to do is believe and everything flows from there. When we come to Jesus to confess our sins and receive his forgiveness and love, we already believe that he can do it. Yes, some of the things in the Bible are incredible and difficult to believe, but when we believe, the truth is revealed to us at the pace we can understand.
Each day as I read a little more in the Bible, often covering passages that I have read several times before, new insights come and what a blessing they are. Now some days do pass where it seems that nothing new is coming and that I am simply re-reading old verses. To me that is like a review of basic lessons in school or work, sometimes the steps upward must come after a review of where I have been in the Word.
Some days the devotional just seems to come to me. It can seem that I am writing down a stream that bounces from rock to rock in a twisting, turning course. I know the stream leads to Jesus, and that is all that I need to know.
God bless you!
Bucky
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