Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Reflections on Mark 9

This life is not about me but about Christ who can be found only in belief.  In the heart of a Child you can see belief, you can see Christ.  In the heart of men is found an unwelcome tenant, a cancer of the soul, a speaker of lies, named logic.  Why do we allow logic and reasoning, skills of the mind, to rule over emotion.  Emotion given as a gift from God.  Have you ever read a tombstone that said, "He lived his life with great logic and reasoning?"  In the end these are not the things that matter...the mind and the things of the mind are left behind.  The soul is the only thing left.  Where is your souls focus?  Is it like a child and focused on belief in Christ?  This is what God is interested in...where is your hearts focus?

In my Sunday morning class the question was asked; "When we get to heaven will we know if loved ones did not make it?"  One young man said it all when he said; "In eternity we will all be looking up.  Some will be in heaven looking up at God in all of his glory others will be in hell looking up at heaven and realizing the mistake they made."  It is that heart like a child that will lead us to belief in Christ and that belief is the first step to receiving the Gift.  I would much rather be looking at His Glory then to be looking at what I missed out on.

Lord help me to have a heart of a child, an unfading belief in Your Son, a desire to worship You forever, and grant me the peace on earth to share your message with those around me.  May the Glory be Your's and Your's alone.  Forever and ever through your Son Jesus the Truth, the Word, the Christ.