Hope you are having a wonderful week and thanking God for it. Our Sunday school lesson on March 5, about the consequences of our sinful nature that God will assuredly judge us by. People that worship false gods putting these idols above the only true living God that has ever been or will ever be, loving their money and material things, for them their fate is sealed and they are doomed, if they don’t ask for forgiveness. Never too late to make a change in the path you’re headed down and give your heart to Jesus. He’s there just waiting and loving you and wanting you to accept Him as your Lord and personal Savior. We all get to a place of such misery in our lives that whatever we’re doing is wrong and just keeps consuming us and there seems to be no hope in sight does there? I’ve been there so I know what the consequences of sin are and it’s certainly an awful sight and so dismal is your future and the thought of just simply giving up and saying what’s the use of trying to do belter is the only thing crossing your mind. First step to take, when you are feeling this bad about your life and how unhappy you are, talk to Jesus. He knows everything about you because you, after all, are His creation. If He loved you and me so much that He would give up His life for us and take on our sins and die on that old rugged cross, how deep can His love for you and me be? I know, it’s unimaginable for me, too.
Someone wanting to know more about the story from years ago in Mom’s kitchen, when the Pepsi Cola bottle (it was glass) exploded. Our daddy could have been done in for on that fateful day, when our mom had forgotten the Pepsi bottle she had put in the oven and it exploded covering daddy with so many ashes that came down settling on him and the newspaper he was reading. Wasn’t there when it happened, as I was out of the nest by then, but was told daddy was a funny sight and hardly recognizable with ashes all over him and the newspaper. I do thank God that He was looking out for both of them as glass went everywhere except on dad and mom. Mom sure learned a lot that day about where to store those Pepsi’s and I bet daddy checked that stove from that day forward just to make sure mom had learned a valuable lesson. I had to laugh as mom related to me she heard the bottle spewing and then remembered the Pepsi bottle in the oven. All she could do was holler Jake get out of the kitchen but daddy just looked up and asked what? And that was when the oven door blew open! Most, likely, daddy was reading the sports section and checking his beloved "Yankees" baseball game they had played. When he was in deep concentration on our National pastime. It would take more than an explosion to get him in high gear on moving. Love and miss you Mom and dad. Good news though, I’ll be seeing you later. Some stories need repeating. This is definitely one of them that we shared a whole lot of laughter over when we got together.
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Obey my voice, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 7:23
