“As for the days of your life, they
contain seventy years, Or, if due to strength, eighty years. Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For
soon it is gone, and we fly away”
(Psalm 90:10).
Hey Gang: Recent poll studies said the greatest problem
with advertising is people burn out on repetition, so they spend big bucks
finding new ways to sell their products.
I do not think that is restricted to selling Campbells Pork and Beans
but also fits many areas of our lives.
So, I ask you,
have you burned out on Grampsmorningthoughts?
Is it time for me to get out my trusty recliner - I hate rocking chairs
- and pull it up by the fire and get involved in a good book? Now, I will not know the answer to this
survey without your letting me know who the survivors are out there.
As you know I
have reached the “older than dirt” plateau in my earthly existence and you can
see from the morning Scripture that I am living on borrowed time. I have found it interesting that, in recent
years what hair I have left has turned grey, thoughts of what happens when my
thumper quits thumping, is what happens next.
I appreciate Paul’s Philippians 1:21 comment when he said, “For me, to live is Christ and to die is
gain”.
Now understand
I am a lousy reader. When I graduated
from High School I read on about a fourth-grade level but then I met and
married a school teacher who in the past sixty years has improved my reading
skills to about the sixth-grade level.
My problem is I am a word reader and plowing through a book of more than
a hundred pages can be an experience in agony and pain. (Kindle for my birthday
has improved that – I have read over a dozen books in the last 5 months!)
With that
piece of unnecessary information in mind you will understand the miracle that
transpired in my life in the last three days.
Our Pastor, in his message, mentioned a tidbit from a book he had read
titled Divine Revelation of Hell. That caught my attention. Not that I plan on spending one iota of one
second there! And do not want that for
others.
When we checked
Amazon to see if they had the book we learned the author, Mary K. Baxter, wrote
several other books with the Divine Revelation Title, including Divine
Revelation of Heaven. The books gave a living account of her many
visits to heaven and hell with Jesus as her guide. Her mission was to share what she saw and
experienced, in her time in hell and heaven.
Soooo, I was immediately hooked and wanted to see what she had to
say.
The miracle? I
read both books on my Kindle in three days!
Out of sight! I was ecstatic to
get finished with the Hell rendition, a book that was filled cover to cover
with depression and agony and pain. But
what joy it was to read the book describing heaven. There is no question in my mind, if our Congress
passed a law that every person in America had to attend a seminar on these two books,
the rapid decline of those who say they believe in nothing would change
abruptly.
I am always
amazed when I see a person who has been blessed with a wonderful body, a
wonderful mind and a wonderful soul with the potential for a wonderful life
here on earth and a wonderful eternity with Jesus, literally destroy the
perfection that God built into them. How sad it is when a person with these
wonderful attributes rejects all the blessing that God wants to give them and chooses
to “go their own way” here and after their life has ended.
So, my
friends, would I recommend the books?
Yes, especially the Divine Revelation of Heaven. When you say, “Father, forgive me for the
sins I have committed and turned your life over to Him” the book on hell is not
going to add to your Spiritual walk.
Just make sure your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and have
your seat reserved at the Marriage Feast of the Lamb.
Blessings,
Gramps
P.S. When it comes to books of folks’ visitations
to heaven and hell I have always been a wee bit -no make that very skeptical -but
Mary K. Baxter, the author, has been and continues to be a speaker in many
venues throughout the world. But that is
not the reason I have accepted her Divine Revelation of Heaven as creditable, I
counted 174 Scriptures from 36 books, Old and New Testament that provided
Biblical back up for everything she wrote.
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