A Christian Viewpoint

Heaven may be an interesting place. Hell may be a terrible place. According to Revelations everyone will be resurrected. Those who accepted “the faith” in whatever dispensation they were in will find themselves on a new earth with the new city of God, which is the residence of the Lamb, come down from heaven. Those who rejected “the faith” in whatever dispensation they were in will find themselves in the lake of fire. Heaven and hell are but rest stops to the final destination which is home again on the renewed earth for the faithful and the lake of fire for the rest.

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I read a post that talked about an evangelist speaking about people needing a spiritual enema.

It does seem crude but I certainly can see the point… One good dose of the Holy Spirit and all the spiritual and carnal filth you have been constipated with gets flushed out of your system. Seems to me that there are quite a few people who could use such a purgative. Hmmm…. come to think of it, it wouldn’t hurt me to get one on occasion. eww… What a mental image picture! wow… What a wonderful God! That evangelist certainly has a peculiar message and a needed work of God in others.

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Have you felt the “Powerful Intimate Presence” of God? If you have you are witness to only a foreshadowing of what it will be like when our Lord returns in the heavens to snatch away his bride, the church. Know Him! More and more this day and everyday; and perfectly when he arrives.

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Someone asked why do some Christians treat other Christians with physical problems as second class citizens of heaven? Do the sick lack faith, have hidden sin, etc.?

I have seen the same thing at work in a few other Christians. By no means are they the majority, except in some churches. There are many reasons why people do not have the healing they need. In a fully functioning church with all the gifts in manifestation and a heart of compassion I believe there would be many more healings in the church. Either the gift is missing or there is a lack of compassion, that creates the atmosphere for denial.

I find it peculiar that people lay the blame for someone not being healed at the feet of the hurting. Jesus himself told the people around him that they were off the mark when he said that they would take up this proverb against him… “physician heal thyself!” It seems we too have people going about saying the same thing to the hurting. Physician heal thyself… have we forgotten that Jesus is the great physician. If there is something blocking the healing it is up to the church to intercede on their behalf. But, without the gifts in full manifestation… only the easy ones are healed. You know, not the severity of the problem but those with no blocks to hinder.

In the end it is the grace of God not a formula nor the spouting of words spoken in presumption.

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Tonight I saw a desert. You could see the heat rippling the air above it. I saw a glacier. The air so cold it pulled all the moisture from the air. Where the desert met the glacier a moderation took place. The water running off the glacier fed the dry sands of the desert. There, in that strip of land, at that moment of time, the land came to life because of the water. The church, meeting together, is the same way. No matter the heated conflicts or the coldness of those around you, life comes forth where the two meet. Thank God for the meeting.

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