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"Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven...Matthew 6:20

Heaven is a place in the future of every Christian, and I want to know, are you prepared? Are you really ready to go?
I don’t just mean, do you have the hope of heaven? Are you awake, alert and longing for it? That’s part of it.

Trusting in Christ also means recognizing that your life on earth and your witness to others for Christ should count for something and you should lay up for yourself treasures in heaven.

Every thing you have on earth will be left behind. But Jesus told us if we were wise, we would “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:20–21). This means as Christians we will one day receive rewards for our faithful service to the Lord.

What are you doing for Christ? Are you using the gifts He has given you? Are you serving Him?

I have found the best way to live the greatest life in this world is to be more concerned with the next one. C. S. Lewis said, “Aim for heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither.”

So as I aim at heaven, as I am thinking about being in the presence of the Lord, earth will be thrown in. I can have the greatest life on this earth, not because I am trying to obtain happiness or fulfillment, but because I am trying to walk with God and please Him.

The fringe benefit of living life for the next one is I can have a happy, fulfilled life doing it. Won’t you please join me!!

Sandy Perry
11/28/10"

With the season of Advent beginning are we patiently waiting?

The word Advent means "coming" or "arrival." The focus of the entire season is the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ in his First Advent, and the anticipation of the return of Christ the King in his Second Advent. Thus, Advent is far more than simply marking a 2,000 year old event in history. It is celebrating a truth about God, the revelation of God in Christ whereby all of creation might be reconciled to God. That is a process in which we now participate, and the consummation of which we anticipate. Scripture reading for Advent will reflect this emphasis on the Second Advent, including themes of accountability for faithfulness at His coming, judgment on sin, and the hope of eternal life.
In this double focus on past and future, Advent also symbolizes the spiritual journey of individuals and a congregation, as they affirm that Christ has come, that He is present in the world today, and that He will come again in power. That acknowledgment provides a basis for Kingdom ethics, for holy living arising from a profound sense that we live "between the times" and are called to be faithful stewards of what is entrusted to us as God’s people. So, as the church celebrates God’s inbreaking into history in the Incarnation, and anticipates a future consummation to that history for which "all creation is groaning awaiting its redemption," it also confesses its own responsibility as a people commissioned to "love the Lord your God with all your heart" and to "love your neighbor as yourself.

We are patiently waiting,
Longing for the day
Helplessly anticipating,
Too hear our Lord Jesus say
Well done My son,
My good and faithful child
And when we hear His voice
Will we stand or will we fall
When we sense His beckoning call
Will we be filled with joyful apprehension
and awesome wonder to see Him smile?
Yet still we go on contemplating,
Yes patiently we are waiting
Humbly, anticipating,
Seeing Jesus face to face
Held ever so gently
In His sweet loving embrace
No more pain and suffering,
No more sorrow will we know
When we see Jesus on His throne
We will be seen as He is seen
Known as He is known
Oh how we long to be
In the presence of our King
Caught up in His glory so bright
Never to see another night
Will we stand or will we fall
When the roll up yonder is called?

Sandy Perry

A new Heart You Say???

This new heart we have been given
Is not like the old one of sinful livin
This new mind that is being transformed
Into His image our soul is being conformed

This journey last for a lifetime here on earth
And comes full circle in our eternal rebirth
Yet, sometimes we can stray away from the fold
And some of us do not find the Way back
Until we’re broken and old

Yet in my life I can look back and see
I was never too far from Thee
And in all these times I thought I was lost
Jesus was there leading me to the cross

Where the cost of our sins were paid
On His shoulders our burdens were laid
Set free from the sins of our past
Freed up to hear God say,
welcome home My good and faithful child at last

My friends if this does not bring you peace
And fill you with a joy that does not cease
It should make us long for Jesus so much
To be near to Him in our hearts
Feel Him in the depths of our soul
With a yearning to feel His loving touch
As His loving arms pick us up
Bringing us into the heavenly fold


Sandy Perry