Come Back to Olivet, Dear Jesus

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 You tell me You are always with me, and i'm finally getting smart enough to believe You, so i can say to others, "Now God tells me He won't leave me or forsake me, and that's what i believe."  Joshua succeeded Moses.  As You were with Moses, You're with me.  Grace is God's riches at Jesus's expense.  Every day is Christmas because every day God gives the gift of His own timing to those who can use God's grace.  Jesus is the mirror as are the Ten Commandments.  Jesus gets us.  He knows in advance what's going on in the World and it's up to me to pay more attention to Him if i want to get a clue as to what's going to happen next.  Come back to Olivet, dear Jesus.  A Sabbath's day journey was a climb to Olivet. --[Acts 1:12]

And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east.  And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west.  Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south. ---[Zechariah 14:4]

Lord, help me to write the things i see and the things which are and the things to come.  i'm not here to convince anybody to become a believer.  Only to take shelter in the Savior.  Who is on the Lord's side?  God shows Himself to me, changing my belief, my actions, my old man has died.

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