I read about a preacher whose son wandered into the living room one evening, - - crawled up on his daddy’s lap - - snuggled up close, and looked up into his daddy’s eyes, and said something this dad will never forget.~ “Daddy, When I’m in your arms, I feel so safe.”
I remember Logan, our grandson, as a two/three year old, crawling up on my lap, with a booklet of toys in his hands - - snuggling up close, saying : “Papa, I need that;” pointing to a battery powered train he could ride.
No matter how old we get, we’re still looking for arms we can feel totally safe - - especially when we think of eternity. Beloved, for some of us, in a vapor’s breath, only one thing matters, the presence of absence of God. When we die, all that will matter is God. Are we swallowed up in His glory, or are we swallowed up in the torments of outer darkness.
I believe one of the greatest missions of our church is to reweave the fabric of God-centered lives and families – to rebuild the foundation of God’s all-pervasive presence and influence in your lives and in the lives of our children and their children - - as many in our world as we can influence.
A young woman was told that her granddaddy was an alcoholic for most of his young years. She was told he made plans to kill himself one night, and on that night as he passed a rescue mission, they were singing a song his mother used to sing. That night he committed himself to Jesus, and he never touched alcohol again. He spent the rest of his life telling others about the power that had changed him.
This woman found a grave site that had no name on it, but there was inscribed on it the same words that were on her mother’s gravestone: “Safe In The Arms Of Jesus.” She was to learn later it was her grandfathers gravesite.
I hope those words will accurately describe where we’ll be the moment after we die - - “Safe In The Arms of Jesus.”~ The Bible lets us know this hope is more than just an nice epitaph. It says of those who belong to Jesus Christ, that they will be “absent from the body, and present with the Lord.” (2Cor. 5:8).
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Bro. Roy