"Step One, Two"

"O LORD my God, I cried unto Thee, and Thou hast healed me." (Psalms 30:2) Forever is a very long time, don't you know? Not only have we been lifted up to a position of immortality, but the joke is on death and the many different ways that death can happen; that includes all death by illness and decay of this mortal shell; which is nothing more than a tent to house my spirit, a temporary tent at that! So, now that we have been given this new spiritual understanding about the true meaning of what we see and what we do not see, how should our conversation be? Are we really to be that concerned with what is happening here, or do we need to focus more on that which is to come? I say this because it is only going to get worse, and the disease of sin is only going to spread more and more rampantly; making that which is wrong right, and that which is meant to be right wrong in the eyes of this world. Notice that I said the disease of sin; because that is exactly how it infects our society and our world; taking down long standing statutes of law and order, by replacing them with make-believe ordinances that do nothing but take the focus off of God and place it upon man. We must continually teach ourselves in the conversations of our heart; reminding ourselves of the fact that we have been saved from not only the sin of our own lives, but also from the sin of this world; and no matter how bad things might become here, there is nothing that the sin of this world can do against us, or can take away from our eternal existence; for we have been healed from that! Knowing that we have been, we must be thankfully and prayerfully going about our daily lives, taking each and every day as another opportunity to make some kind of difference in the world around us, and understanding what it is that we are here for... "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2)