Grains of Sand

GRAINS OF SAND

As the last grain of sand falls through the hour glass of our life and we see the sun sitting on our final day, what will matter most? To have made a positive difference in someones life as a child of God will be victory. Put aside regrets and perceived failures. They ride on the grains of sand. Rise now from your bed of sorrow. Take the yoke of our Lord upon you and go forward beneath His “light load and easy burden.” Keep watch, be ready, love His coming, for the time is at hand.

2 Timothy 4: 7 “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”Genesis 22: 14 “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen. 15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;”

Hebrews 11:12 “By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

Consider the numbers. The world is over crowded and ripe for the last grain of sand to drop through God’s measuring glass and the ending of created time. When the great day of the Lord will come is not known. It will not be known until His appearing. It will be after the taking away of the saints (church) and after the one thousand year reign is completed. Then the forgiven, evil, dead shall rise to face the wrath of God’s judgment.

Revelation 20: 5 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”

Time don’t run out on me until I can say with certainty those words brother Paul spoke: “I have fought the good fight, I have kept the faith. Amen. Know God, know peace. 03-29-2020 BLL