“IMPERISHABLE!”

 

1 Peter 1:3-5                 (ESV)

Born Again to a Living Hope

“[3] Blessed be the GOD and FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST! According to HIS great mercy, HE has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of JESUS CHT from the dead, [4] to an inheritance that is “IMPERISHABLE” , undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, [5] who by GOD’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME.”

imperishable -

“not subject to decay; INDESTRUCTIBLE; enduring permanently”.

Mere words of mortal beings are incapable of describing the GRANDEUR of that which awaits those of us who are CHOSEN to be with HIM FOREVER AND FOREVER!!!

“HE TESTED THEM!”

 

Psalms 27:14                 (KJV)

“WAIT” on the LORD: be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “WAIT”, I say, on the LORD.”

It is very seldom that I read from the King James Version of the BIBLE anymore.  My experience is that other translations are more closely translated from the ORIGINAL TEXT, and in my humble opinion my life has to experience the closest to what GOD meant for me to hear!!!

However, the Hebrew word for “WAIT” is “qavah”, and that translates to “to bind together (perhaps by twisting)”.  That tends to SHINE a completely different LIGHT on things, in my humble opinion.  “BIND TOGETHER”, with THE LORD!  be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “BIND TOGETHER”, I say, with the LORD” gives this servant a VASTLY different message than WAIT!!  

Why the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES would desire to “BIND TOGETHER” with a Brain Damaged Stroke Survivor is almost INCONCEIVABLE, in my opinion?  Yet HE left me here FOR A PURPOSE and I DEFINITELY need to “BIND TOGETHER” with HIM before I attempt to do ANYTHING!!  If I get up and begin driving early in the morning, I always try to go to bed early the night before I am trying to leave.  But HE PROMISES to never leave us nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6), so I CLING to HIS PROMISE!!!

Discovering a different translation of THE WORD OF GOD is something that I research very closely, because TRUTH is VERY IMPORTANT to me!!  But I do appreciate that “BIND TOGETHER” is what “qavah” translates to and I am grateful for that!!!

Lamentations 3:25

 Lamentations 3:25                 (ESV)

    [25] “The LORD is good to those who wait for HIM,

        to the soul who seeks HIM.”

“TO SERVE!”

 

Mark 10:45                 (ESV)

“[45] For even the SON of MAN came not to be served but “TO SERVE”, and to give HIS LIFE as a ransom for many.””

Sharing a video recently from Dr. David Gibbs, Jr. about his dad SHOWING him about serving is something that brings back memories to this servant of THE MOST HIGH GOD!  1 Corinthians 3:16 days very plainly “Do you not know that YOU ARE GOD’s temple and that GOD’s SPIRIT dwells in you?”   

When we SURRENDER OUR LIVES to JESUS, we give up CONTROL of “calling the shots” as far as the decisions about what we do and where we go.  

Probably when I was around ten years old, I remember riding with my grandfather to his fathers house (my great grandfather) outside of Idabel, OK to pick up a milk cow that needed to go to the “sale barn”.  My grandfather was given a check by his dad for his gas and the “trouble” he went through helping his dad sell his final cow before “great grandpa” died a few years later.  He tore that check up on the way back to where we lived, WITHOUT COMMENT!!  

That act of kindness and generosity shown to my great grandfather by my grandfather came to mind as I saw the video recently.  The Privilege to Serve video exquisitely said what my grandpa WOULD NOT say back then!  It was an honor and privilege “TO SERVE” the one that gave him life, while SERVING THE ONE WHO GIVES ETERNAL LIFE!!!

“THE PRIVILEGE TO SERVE!”

 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19QpWHjrbc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

“BIND TOGETHER!”

 

Psalms 27:14                 (KJV)

“WAIT” on the LORD: be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “WAIT”, I say, on the LORD.”

It is very seldom that I read from the King James Version of the BIBLE anymore.  My experience is that other translations are more closely translated from the ORIGINAL TEXT, and in my humble opinion my life has to experience the closest to what GOD meant for me to hear!!!

However, the Hebrew word for “WAIT” is “qavah”, and that translates to “to bind together (perhaps by twisting)”.  That tends to SHINE a completely different LIGHT on things, in my humble opinion.  “BIND TOGETHER”, with THE LORD!  be of good courage, and HE shall strengthen thine heart: “BIND TOGETHER”, I say, with the LORD” gives this servant a VASTLY different message than WAIT!!  

Why the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES would desire to “BIND TOGETHER” with a Brain Damaged Stroke Survivor is almost INCONCEIVABLE, in my opinion?  Yet HE left me here FOR A PURPOSE and I DEFINITELY need to “BIND TOGETHER” with HIM before I attempt to do ANYTHING!!  If I get up and begin driving early in the morning, I always try to go to bed early the night before I am trying to leave.  But HE PROMISES to never leave us nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6), so I CLING to HIS PROMISE!!!

Discovering a different translation of THE WORD OF GOD is something that I research very closely, because TRUTH is VERY IMPORTANT to me!!  But I do appreciate that “BIND TOGETHER” is what “qavah” translates to and I am grateful for that!!!

“CHILDREN OF GOD!”

 

John 1:9-13                 (ESV)

“[9] The TRUE LIGHT, which gives LIGHT to everyone, was coming into the world. [10] HE was in the world, and the world WAS MADE THROUGH HIM, yet THE WORLD DID NOT KNOW HIM. [11] HE came to HIS own, and HIS OWN people did not receive HIM. [12] But to all who did receive HIM, WHO BELIEVED IN HIS NAME, HE GAVE the right to become “CHILDREN OF GOD”, [13] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, BUT OF GOD.”

The ABSOLUTE LOVE that is bestowed on my grandchildren is INDESCRIBABLE!!  But the LOVE of my CHILDREN made my grandchildren possible!  Similarly, ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO orchestrated THE WORD to be written by mankind, says in many places that BELIEVERS SHALL be named as the “CHILDREN OF GOD”, CHOSEN by HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Ephesians 1:4)!!!

To fully understand this is something that GOD has ELECTED to keep “secret” (Deuteronomy 29:29) from me, at least for now!?!  In HIS UNMITIGATED and INDESCRIBABLE WISDOM, GOD CHOSE me to be CHOSEN by HIM, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, KNOWING how rebellious and cantankerous I would be, especially in my younger years.  HE CHOSE me, even though I was moving so quickly before the Brain Hemorrhage, and HE SUPERNATURALLY SLOWED me down to be able to HEAR from HIM!!!

My inability to find “the words” describing my LOVE for my wife, children and my grandchildren goes FAR BEYOND the Brain Hemorrhage! I am a FLAWED and IMPERFECT servant who is BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE with everything that GOD has given me!  But HE GAVE an insignificant servant THE RIGHT to become “CHILDREN OF GOD”, and I am BLESSED that HE did!!!