Listening to the comments of people who either praise someone alive or express their regret about the death of someone they knew always amazes me.
Inevitably someone will say, “just being around him made you feel better, he gave you so much hope.”
One-or-two-seconds pass before I notice the amazing difference between both realities of life.
Then it happens the amazing truth hits me. Not one person mentioned God or heaven, and they spoke of having hope.
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From the NKJ Bible, the book of Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 1-3 “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were…..
It was Christmas 2001 a few months after America’s 9-11 wake-up call. My small family did not want to talk about God. They appeared to be part of the majority of Americans that wanted leaders to do away with or have little to do with God and be led by human systems.
After generations of America ignoring God and mocking Him with bold and heinous offenses, our holy and righteous God allowed some of the consequences of sin to fall…..