God Misses You!

God misses you! He needs you to come home so that you can come with us on that amazing day when He will come on a cloud, and we'll be in the middle of a word, (hopefully, it won't be an idle one), and we'll finish it in front of Jesus!

In Luke 21:36, Jesus told the disciples, "Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man."  

God misses you and so do we, your brothers and sisters in Christ! If you've fallen, please listen to this song, and remember what it was like to go to church, worship Jesus and how close you had gotten to Him before the devil robbed you of your belief, your hope and your joy? "The thief comes only to kill, steal and destroy. I came that you might have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10).

The devil doesn't only roam about like a "roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour," (1 Peter 5:8), he is also very sneaky! I remember hearing a bible teacher once say, "You must know your enemy very well, in order to #1 see him coming, #2 see his attacks for what they are, a way to get you to sin and be separated from God, and #3 to lull you into a sense of complacency, which will could eventually leave you wondering, "what the heck just happened," when we get raptured, and you get left here for seven years of hell on earth? I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy!  A.W. Tozer, the famous bible scholar said it this way: "Complacency is the death knell to all spiritual growth." Complacency is what has caused the "great falling away," as the bible calls it. "Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (destruction, lawlessness)." (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

If you are watching what is going on in this country, and haven't felt God tug on your heart, or have and didn't answer? How long before it will be too late and you get left behind? A lot of people who are Christians, seem to think they'll get raptured simply because they believe! Even the demons believe Jesus is the Son of God! You have to have a few other things there, like for instance, "Faith without works," well, it's dead. (James 2:19-20), "Love one another, as I have loved you." (John 15:12), and "Without faith, it is impossible to please God." (Hebrews 11:6). This scripture does not refer to "intellectual belief," but rather "trust." Each one means something completely different from the other. 

I heard this description of the difference once: Say you're at Niagara Falls and some guy is walking across the falls on a tightrope and asks the crowd gathered to watch his amazing feat, "How many of you think I can make it to the center of the falls and back again?" Of course, because your own lives are not at stake, you would applaud and egg him on to try. So say that the tightrope walker walks to the center of the falls, grabs something, a wheelbarrow, and pushes it across the tightrope and comes back. Once he makes it back to the side where you are gathered with the crowd, say the tightrope walker asks this time, "How many of you think I can push this wheelbarrow all the way across the falls and make it back again?" Of course, again, because your life is not in any way threatened, you applaud with the rest of the crowd for him to try. That is....until he asks, "Can I get a volunteer to get into the wheelbarrow?"

The question is, if Jesus was the one pushing the wheelbarrow, would you get into it? If you can say yes, that you trust Him to keep you safe, from all harm, knowing that He wouldn't let you fall, then you trust Him for your life. However, there are other scriptures that speak of people who are delusional in their belief systems, and thus, this has caused a "great falling away from the faith," by many! They are now dead and dying in their sin! "I told you that you would die in your sins, if you do not believe that I am He, you will indeed die in your sins." (John 8:24). 

In the book of Revelation, Jesus says, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were either one or the other! So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth."  (Revelation 3:15-16). This is the last warning He gave us before John was taken to heaven in the Spirit, to see what would come after all these things came to pass and in his own limited way, John described what the seven year tribulation would be like.

Jesus also warned us about our motives when we do good works! "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name and in Your name drive out demons and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you! Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.' Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house, yet it did not fall because it had it's foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell with a great crash." (Matthew 7:22-27).

I don't know about you, but I know I have friends that I know have fallen away from the Lord. I have friends and family members that I'm not sure are even saved. I pray for them all of the time, and if you aren't doing that? Time to dust off that "Sword of Truth that lies dusty on your shelf," and start using it again! We've all walked away from God, some of us for longer than others and I am no exception! I'm a sinner, pure and simple. The Word says, "All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God!" (Romans 3:23). 

Revelation 3:15-16 is the last warning in the bible to those of us who are believers! "After this I looked and there was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." (Revelation 4:1). 

If you listen to some of the same scholars I have listened to, both Christian and Christian Jew, then you know that Revelation 4:1, is where the Rapture of the Church will take place. That is why, at least I believe, that this warning occurs in Revelation 3:15-16! If the Rapture occurs in Chapter 4, verse 1, then this IS THE LAST WARNING JESUS GIVES US! 

A time of great testing is headed our way, and I would suggest that you not worry, but that you pray for God to reveal Himself to you. That you pray for all those in your family, and all of your unsaved friends, that they will see the things we have all been telling them about, and that God will use what we have told them to draw them to Himself! "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you, cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your heart, you double minded." (James 4:8). If you give Jesus just ONE WEEK, He will change EVERYTHING!

"Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling. Calling for you and for me. See on the portals He's waiting and watching. Watching for you, and for me."

"Come home, come home, ye who are weary come home. Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling. Calling, oh sinner, come Home."

Will L. Thompson