THE BLESSINGS AND MERCIES OF THE LORD

So I was listening to a rather special video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKi8yUILNI where the video poster was pondering something that many of us may not even let enter into our realm of thinking: about how astonishingly, amazingly, mercifully BLESSED and yes, LUCKY we are to be living today, now, in this most momentous time in ALL OF RECORDED HISTORY.

Why were we handpicked by God himself for this very moment in time? Was it all predestined? And if so, WHY? HOW? I mean, WHO AM I that God should give me this monumental GIFT of watching all of this unfold, watching HIS-story come to fruition, thousands of years after it was foretold, seeing it all happen WITH MY OWN EYES??? What is my tiny little role in all of this? How can the Creator of the Universe use me, a tiny human, for His kingdom? And yet, I know He will make it happen. It may not be quite the way I might envision it, but He WILL make it happen!

I moved to Texas as an unsaved young person, mostly to run away from the smothering Christianity of my family. I'm sure God must have had a good chuckle over the fact that I ran 1,000 miles away, only to end up in the buckle of the Bible belt, and 10 years later...right into His arms. I look back on it all with 20/20 hindsight, and the whole thing just blows my mind. I also come from a family full of adoptees, so I have to ponder the fact that GOD CHOSE ME, a sinner with the life that I've led, to become one of his adopted family members, chosen to spend ALL OF ETERNITY WITH HIM...well, like Wayne and Garth once said: I'm not worthy! ONLY CHRIST ALONE IS WORTHY. And because HE is worthy, He has covered me with his saving blood, and washed me white as snow of my sins. So I am so grateful, SO VERY VERY GRATEFUL. Thank you Lord for this amazing eternal gift!

But oh Lord...so many will be lost. SO MANY. They are blind and deaf. They don't/won't understand the Truth, they choose to look the other way, they will mock and laugh and jeer and joke...and then it will be too late. I have family and friends who fall into this category, and it hurts my heart and grieves me so much. LORD, PLEASE HURRY TO BRING THE UNBELIEVERS TO YOU, TIME IS SO SHORT. But not my will but yours Lord, amen!