Good morning! The Saturday morning edition for sure, but maybe the Friday evening issue carried the headline about one man who tried to start yet another cult but died at the hands of the executioners. That news was premature. The man walked out of his tomb on a Sunday morning. Had he held a press conference that day, the headline might have begun with "I'm still here!" At various times in our history, God has been declared dead. Other times the Bible, or the followers, or bits and pieces of the ministry have suffered the same declaration. Yet, you and me, preachers of old, saints of bygone days, and perhaps our children to come will say, "I'm still here!" We may say it in Heaven, on the new Earth, or right here today, but alive in Christ we remain.
Many is the thing that should have killed us. Our sin from the earliest days of life condemned us to eternal death. Yet, alive and redeemed we stand in Christ. The enemy has knocked us down. The Law clouted us like Pilgrim. We have despaired in the Swamp of Despond, and languished in the pits of self-loathing. Yet, someone came and picked us up with a promise and a kind word. Our statement in the face of fierce and relentless opposition may well be, "I'm still here!" Ironically, our great hope is that our Lord will snatch us up to His heavenly home, and with perhaps a small "I'm gone" wafting down behind us we will leave the place where we stood in Christ.
Rejoice in the day in the love of Christ Jesus!
BuckyP.S. I'm probably behind (but not 'left behind') in this news since I don't have television service, but it looks like another movie based on the Left Behind series will premiere one month from today. Don't look for the big bad in the first movie.
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