So, I haven't been blogging much in 2009, I don't really know why. No time, been busy, too much facebook, cleaning house, who knows...I usually write out of frustration or when I'm in a really deep time, but I need to write when I'm light and at a peace time.
I just am so happy I have a small group now to do bible study and life with. We're a small small group, but for right now, I think we are just where God wants us to be. One Month to Live was a great book and study. I highly recommend it to everyone. I learned so much practical information from this book. It is stuff we think about and we know from what we have learned from the Bible, but are we practicing it everyday. Would I chose to be offended and be angry if I only had 30 days to live? Would I hold that grudge if I only had 30 days to live? We wouldn't. We would want those days to be filled with life, family, and love. Why don't we live every day like that, even though I hope we have many more days to live.
We are in the middle of a 3 week series on Heaven. All I have to say is WOW! This has been an eye-opening series. There are so many cool things about New Earth and New Heaven. I'm so ready! I just have renewed life in the Bible, actually it's probably always been there, but I am Renewed in Christ, and he is showing me new things every day. It is so exciting. Loving Revelation 21. No Light bulbs in Heaven! Yeah!
22 I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light. 24 The nations will walk in its light, and the kings of the world will enter the city in all their glory. 25 Its gates will never be closed at the end of day because there is no night there.
I urge anyone who might read this, if you've never read the Bible or read it 100 times through, open it, read it tonight. God has something new to show you.
With Love,
Summer
More Heaven soon....
Monday, March 30, 2009
Heaven - Week 2 and other stuff
Monday, March 23, 2009
Heaven - My study notes so far
Revelation 21:1-6
The New Jerusalem 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.[a] 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life.
The New Jerusalem 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
3 I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them.[a] 4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” 6 And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life.
Preparing for the Journey
An Indiana cemetery has a tombstone, more than one hundred years old, with the following epitaph:
Pause, stranger, when you pass me by:
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be.
So prepare for death and follow me.
Pause, stranger, when you pass me by:
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be.
So prepare for death and follow me.
An unknown passerby scratched these additional words on the tombstone:
To follow you I'm not content,
Until I know which way you went.
To follow you I'm not content,
Until I know which way you went.
Can we really know in advance where we're going when we die? The apostle John, the same one who wrote about the new heavens and New Earth, said in one of his letters, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life" (1 John 5:13, emphasis added). We can know for sure that we have eternal life. We can know for sure that we will go to Heaven when we die.
Just some scriptures and text that are pulling at my heart. I have not read or studied Heaven ever as much as I have in the past few days and will delve in the next 3 weeks. I have a longing for Heaven, which we all have in us. Fascinating! God is SO very Awesome!
Enough for tonight,
With Love,
Summer
Friday, March 13, 2009
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