Friday... This would be a great day.

I read everyday from the Psalms, the Proverbs and right now I am reading Revelation, the last book in the Bible. In Revelation 7:9-10 (NLT) I read today, "After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the Lamb." Now that is going to be an unexplainable experience. It really will be. And I plan on being there.

It goes on, "They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a great roar, 'Salvation comes from God who sits on the throne and from the Lamb!'"

And then back to Psalm 95:3-7, "For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains. The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too. Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care."

And here is a very important statement. And it is one that I have given my life to share. It is a statement that will make all the difference in your life and through all eternity. And with deep emotion I share it with you. It says, "If only you would listen to his voice today." This would be a great day to do it.

There is so much that God wants to do for you and with you here in this life but when this is over the life He has prepared for us will just begin and it will be forever. And as my dad used to say, forever is a long, long time.

Oh I know the white robes may not be what you want to wear today but what they represent is unexplainable. The benefits of a relationship with God that we have in this life do not in any way compare to the benefits of an everlasting life with Him. John the writer of Revelation is shown a glimpse but it is only a glimpse. And so I say to you today, "If only you would listen to his voice today." This would be a great day to do it! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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