Feelings

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Sorry about not answering mail again or being able to get my thought on here.. My mail program is locking up again and I feel I am on borrowed time here.. It is working at the moment but yesterday it did but before I could send out the mail whammo, it went kabooie.. Just kicked in so will try and get this in the mail.. I will try and answer some of your letters this evening, Lord willing, and the creek don’t rise.. (smile)

WOW! It is 86 degrees already today according to my on screen weather bug.... The old saying about making hay while the sun shines sounds good but only in theory. In actuality, I would prefer it overcast with a good cool breeze blowing. (smile) NO, NO, I take that back. In Actuality, I would prefer to sit here and write you all letters in these suffering elements of air conditioning and room temperature of 73 degrees. lol Well, you get the picture...

Hmmmmm, everything so far this morning is about feelings. Personal feelings like being hot, sweating, wanting to feel a cool breeze, feeling the air conditioning. Reminds me of a man named Lazarus. He had feelings, Pain mostly, as he laid at the gates of the rich man full of soars, his only comfort was, being licked by dogs. It seems that both Lazarus and the rich man died. Just a couple of things to note here.

1. Lazarus’s name is recorded in the Bible the rich man’s isn’t. Could that be because Lazarus was a child of God and his name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life and the rich man wasn‘t? 2. Lazarus was carried by angels and comforted, the rich man was buried and tormented in HELL. 3...Here is the kicker. Both had feelings after death. They both could see, hear, smell, taste, remember, and feel.

Luke 16: 19, 31

[19] There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
[20] And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
[21] And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
[22] And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
[23] And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
[24] And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
[25] But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
[26] And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
[27] Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
[28] For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
[29] Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
[30] And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
[31] And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

Even as angels escorted Lazarus when he died, so we can assume that they will escort us when God calls us and through death we enter into the presence of Christ. What joy to know that as children of God we will be carried to a place of total comfort, the total feelings of all heaven engulfing us..

May God touch you today with feelings of happiness, joy, and peace in the certainty of this knowledge.

Well Glory!