Sometimes I Feel Like Abram

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 Sore right thigh, pain medication, heart medication.  Compared to my past the future is growing shorter


and shorter, so that's why i intend to walk with God and trust in Him in the present.  The present is the only thing i've got now that's tangible.  Why not abide with Him in the garden?  I'd be a fool otherwise.  i'm feeling Fall coming on, the autumn of my years.  i'm not so quick to get up off the floor when i'm sitting on my butt down on the floor.

i want to rebuild but i don't need to advertise it to the world because, like Him, i'm not here to please the world; i'm here in my final days abiding in the Holy Spirit and serving God through Jesus Christ, no matter where that may take me.  May God protect those two in Pakistan who face death because they proclaimed their Chrisian beliefs.  That's courage.  Yes, Christians are being persecuted and beheaded for our faith and trust in a Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  He, Himself, told us so.

Am i prepared to die for my Christian beliefs?  When i think about the reward for being martyred, i believe i am dying for Christ, just as He died for me.  The people of this world aren't offering much anymore anyway.  I am included. Seems i haven't had much to offer for quite some time.  Now all i have to offer is my presence at the wedding.  God desires wholeness for our lives; and i can't help but continue to wonder what it is exactly He wants me to do.  i think just that in itself is a gift from my Precious Lord.  He makes me rejoice just by having this desire to get up and go, like He had Abram get up and go, not knowing exactly where he was going.  He even renamed him Abraham.  Sometimes i feel like Abram.

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