They tell me I won't be around much longer

[Johnv]

I'll be praying for you Bill.

 

[annsni]

Bill and Tom - You are in my thoughts and prayers. This is going to be yet a new birth for both of you (and all of us when the time comes). May God give you peace and comfort during this time.

 

[exscentric]

POB check yer PM's for ideas on the website. Praying!

 

[Scarlett O.]

((Hugs)), prayers, and peace......

 

[Jon-Marc]

I'm not sayin an official goodbye yet but They say nothing else can be done for me. So I'm hoping to get a few things done.
One thing I would like to do is thank many of you for your friendship over the net. Even though you have'nt heard much from me lately I have been reading, I would also like to thank many of you for what you have taught me and the many blessings you have been to me.

Lastly I need someone to take over my web side if anybody is interested.:godisgood:

Some may think this an inappropriate reply, but I envy you. Personally I want to go home. I'm constantly sick, tired, and in pain from my neck to my feet. I'm retired and bored silly.

If you are at peace with the Lord, then the step from here is to go home to everlasting peace. I'm just homesick.

 

[Servent]

See you later

 

[TomMann]

Some may think this an inappropriate reply, but I envy you. Personally I want to go home. I'm constantly sick, tired, and in pain from my neck to my feet. I'm retired and bored silly.

If you are at peace with the Lord, then the step from here is to go home to everlasting peace. I'm just homesick.

You are right on! The only negative thought I have is the temporary leaving loved ones! and what they will experience!

 

[Allan]

Though I am not posting much anymore on here, please know that I will continue to pray for you and Tom.

My you rejoice in the soon coming of your reunion with your savior and God, and be challanged to pray ever more feverently for those of us awaiting that triumphant day.

 

[Jon-Marc]

You are right on! The only negative thought I have is the temporary leaving loved ones! and what they will experience!

That is very true. I grieved for many months after losing my mother. There was a lot of anger, bitterness, and guilt--thinking I could have done more for her while I had her, and why did I have to lose the one person in this world who unselfishly loved me?

 

[Plain Old Bill]

Thanks for the good thoughts. No fear or apprehension here. I think I know how a seed feels if that is possible, also the word emminant takes on new light. My family is Christian so we are well comforted.
Jon-Marc sounds like you are homesick brother. Don't blame ya one teeny bit. :godisgood:

 

[AnotherBaptist]

Hebrews 11:13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that {country} from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better {country,} that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.

We are all longing for the same thing.

 

[Jon-Marc]

Thanks for the good thoughts. No fear or apprehension here. I think I know how a seed feels if that is possible, also the word emminant takes on new light. My family is Christian so we are well comforted.
Jon-Marc sounds like you are homesick brother. Don't blame ya one teeny bit. :godisgood:

Yes, I am. The older I get (I'm 63), the more tired I get and the more I seem to hurt, and the more physical problems I seem to acquire. I long to see my Jesus, walk on streets of gold, and experience no pain or sickness, and best of all--to be finally free from the desire to sin! "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

 

[Benjamin]

POB, I never know quite what to say in these situations, because on one hand I’m sorry you’re leaving us and on the other, like some have already mentioned, I am glad for you and even feeling a bit envious. One thing I would like to say, which I don’t know if I ever told you and that really sticks out in my mind about some of your writings here is how deeply you love your wife and how eloquently you have expressed that. It has been a blessing for me to read those words. My thoughts and prayers will be for comfort for you and your family during these trying times. God bless you all. .

 

[David Michael Harris]

When I am weary

The Lord bless you Bill, may He cause His light to shine on you.

Resurrection day, whoopee!

I will be glad when all this over too. But till then, keep on soldiering.

Praise God.

http://www.holyfear.net/?p=1519

Prayer: Lord draw near to us as we draw near to You. Amen.

 

[just-want-peace]

Found this in searching for material for next weeks SS lesson, and thought about the comments on this thread.

FTR, I also am very ambivalent re: my own demise, primarily because if I go in the very near future I'll not only leave a wife & 2 kids, BUT a 98 YO mother.

Except for this, I'm ready and a little bit anxious - specially as I see the path our country is taking; BUT, it's in His hands!!

Bill, with His peace is in your heart, you are to be envied rather than pitied.

On Death and Dying

From a Sermon by Ray Stedman

"What is your view of your approaching death?
Do you have some sense of anticipation about it, with the awareness that beyond death is the final explanation of all the unanswered, unexplained questions of life? I became a Christian when I was 11 years old. Like all young boys, I faced life then with mixed feelings of both anticipation and dread. But one thing I have always wanted to do was to grow old. God has answered that prayer. Now, as I near the end, I can say that looking ahead is a time filled with happy anticipation that God is going to answer all the questions which I have had to leave unanswered, because the full meaning of this present experience will never be brought out until death intervenes. Then will come all the answers, abundantly, satisfyingly, fully.

That is the Christian perspective of life. If we succumb to the empty view of the worldlings around us we too will find ourselves all ajitter, frustrated, feeling bitter, angry and upset with our circumstances. But these words call us to the realization that the meaning of life can never be found by trying to solve all the problems. Rather, it is by trust in the Living God, who knows what he is doing and is working out his strange purposes through our existence, teaching us all we need to know as we go on through, so that our eyes should reflect the peace of God and our hearts respond with joy at the promises that await fulfillment yet to come."
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"Our own personal death is the hard, harsh, square peg that refuses to fit into all the round holes we plan for our future; it is the sand in our oyster that irritates us and makes our spirits protest against it. Why should we learn all these great lessons of life and, just when we have learned them we must give them all up and there is no opportunity to exercise them? Something about that makes us protest.

"If we have been brought up to believe the universal lie of our day which is being flung at us all the time through the media that we deserve to live, then this constantly approaching termination of our life reminds us that that is not so. In the eyes of the God of the universe we do not deserve to live. If we are allowed life beyond death it is a gift of God's grace, not something we have earned ourselves. Something in us deserves to die; that is what universal death declares.

"That fact is what makes everybody essentially religious. This is why man cannot live like an animal. Even those who claim atheism, and attempt to act and live as though there were no God, give evidence from time to time that they do not really believe that. Beyond death is something someone they do not know who or what waiting for them, so they cannot be comfortable with the idea of atheism. They have to find some answer to the problems of life, and death is what forces them to do that." November 28, 1982

Emphasis mine!!

Folks who do not have His peace have to be absolutely miserable!!

http://www.raystedman.org/biography.html ---if you are interested in further info!

 

[Jon-Marc]

My view on death is that the sooner it happens the better. I'd prefer to be taken away in what is commonly called the "rapture".

 

[Soulman]

Bill,
I know you are at peace in His love. At least you won't have to fight with the likes of us anymore. We'll miss ya! Remember that nothing can happen till the Lord says it can. I am sure the final touches on your mansion are being attended to . Will be praying for you!