Timothy today I ministered to a family as I gave the eulogy for the first time as a minister. I did not personally know the 86 year old man that passed but I felt like I knew him from the conversations I had with his grandson Corey.

People are so interesting. Today a wife who decided after 60 years of marriage that it was time to leave her husband and live her life attended his funeral. For the first time I experienced the long term effects of divorce.

A family broken, children divided over who caused the divorce and two people left to live life alone. The youngest son asked me how he was suppose to react as he saw and spoke to his mother for the first time in seven years.

Seven years of silence. A son abandoned by his mother for her pursuit of life. I wondered as I looked at this woman old and feeble if she had experienced what she set out to find? Seeing that she is alone and does not have anyone to share her life with I would have to say the answer is no.

We are so blind Timothy. Blind to what is real and what really matters in life. God wants us to experience all the great things that come with living life on this planet, but we are blinded. We exchange the real for the counterfeit and when we are left empty handed we wonder why God is punishing us? We need to wake people from their slumber Timothy. Sometimes I wish God would blind the world like He did Saul. Then maybe with the world around them blotted out they would see for the first time a Savior who loves them.

New Year Same Old Story

Well here we are again Timothy a new year. New is of course in the eye of the beholder. What is new in your life from the year prior? I mean it seems like we are all living life in this wheel that continues to go round and round. After a while we lose track of how many times we have gone around and then one day the wheel stops. When this happens we realize we have wasted most of our lives doing nothing. We really don't make a difference in the world around us. We are like generations that have come before us leaving life without changing the world. I believe the mass of people who claim to be Christians are asleep caught up in the wheel of life where only the blur of the wheel is seen. We must wake them Timothy! Wake them to the wonder of life and the joy of living a life in Christ. Where each day is a new and spectacular adventure with the creator of the universe. This year Timothy do something new! Something you have never done in your life but have always wanted to do. Experience the joy of your salvation my brother and don't let the enemy bring you down. Let us pray the prayer of the psalmist, "Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death."