I realize it’s almost Halloween but Halloween is not what scares me.  If I didn’t know that God is sitting on His throne during this difficult time in our country, I would feel hopeless! As I read in  2 cor. 4:16-18, God says for me not to lose heart  even though I’m wasting away physically,( in other words I’m getting old) I’m to be renewing inwardly every day. The greatest thing about this truth is that he compares our light and momentary troubles to eternal glory. This life will pass away, I will pass away.  God says that what really matters right now is what I’m doing for eternity.  Not losing heart but keeping an eternal perspective. keeping an eternal perspective is very difficult.  How do you not worry about today and concentrate only on the eternal ? Glad you asked! In verse 18, it tells us to fix our eyes not on what we see but on what we do not see because what we cannot see is eternal.I can tell you, what I’m seeing on the TV or seeing in the paper is definitely tempting me to lose heart!  I’m so glad this life is not eternal. This will soon pass away and what we do for eternity will last forever. Studying Revelation is confirming this verse for me. This earth is going to pass away, God is coming again and he will make right for all the wrong in this world! That’s a promise we can hold on to! So, I guess whatever happens on November 4th is earthly and what God does in my life is eternal. It’s not what the world is doing, that’s going to allow me to not lose heart but it’s what I love with all my heart, it’s what I spend my time investing in, it’s what I worship that will keep me from losing heart and also will  produce for me an eternal glory that out weights it all!! 

I’m sitting here having my quiet time thinking, “there’s nothing on this earth compares to Him”. I certainly have tried to fill my longings with artificial things that leave me  empty. Thinking about Christmas time when you search and search for the perfect gift for your children or grandkids and finally get that perfect gift and they open it look excited and then throw it to the side and play with the box! You think, are you kidding me! If they only knew what I went through to get that “one toy” they so wanted.  I wonder if that’s what Jesus thinks when He sees us delight in a empty box called “things beside Him”? If we could only get a hold of what He went through to give us Him! He’s the gift! we love all the empty things in life so often than just wanting Him! I’m just as guilty! wanting “things” and not “Him”! Sure, I know in my head and heart that He alone satisfies, He alone fills my longings, but living life I often play with empty boxes. I think that the empty box is more fun at the moment til I am reminded of it’s emptiness.Then in my emptiness I cry out to Him realizing He is the gift! Reminding myself the price He paid to have Him! when am I going to know that the price He paid He did it for me to know Him? Not, just to stay out of Hell and that’s amazing within itself since I deserve Hell but I get to call Him Father. I get to talk with Him, I get to bow before a Holy God!!  His love and all I have in Him is more than enough!! He really is everything and He alone fills my longings!Father, please remind me to throw away the empty boxes in life!I love you Father, I really do!