It’s #FiveMinuteFriday…I have missed it! Write for 5 minutes flat – no editing, no over thinking, no backtracking. Today’s word prompt is FLY. Okay, for your sake, some editing. I hope you enjoy today’s short post. It’s a little humorous and a little serious all rolled into one. Blessings, it’s Friday!
Go!
Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamed about the Lord Jesus returning to earth and taking us back to Heaven with Him.
Well…not all my dreams included ME in the returning back.
Let’s just say quite a few of those daydreams, and nightmares, involved countless hours of worry: Will I be (insert big booming voice here) LEFT BEHIND?
My parents still have the cutest, most adorable, black and white (with no sound of course, it’s the 60’s!) home movie of me and my sister singing, “We shall be changed! We shall be changed! We’ll be changed from this mortal, to im-mor-tal-i-TEE, in the twinkling of an eye.”
Pretty big words for a two and four year old, but we were show-stoppers for sure.
Even as I reached my early teen years and my parents started going to church, I continued to wonder if I would be a part of the “catching away” (insert preacher’s voice bellowing through the microphone during altar call) or the “falling away” (insert screams of those falling into Hades, Hell, the Abyss, Gehenna, or the Lake of Fire, take your pick).
If that wasn’t bad enough there was a song that a lovely friend of mine in our church sang, (you know who you are Cruella De Vil), and the chorus went like this:
Left Behind, forever and ever
With no hope for eternity
Missing out on the joys that the others will find
Dear Lord don’t let me be the one left behind
Yeah, that one made me want to run to the altar every time.
But the older I became, the more I fell in love with the One that they kept telling me was coming again.
“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:3.
I had been baptized, I had received His Holy Spirit but not until I learned how to PRAY did I really learn to walk with Him, to know Him, to grow, understand and realize why I was put here in the first place.
To bring Him glory, to see Jesus exalted and lifted UP. Because when I do that, then others are able to see Him more clearly and they will want to know Him too.
“I will praise you, O Lord my God with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.” Psalm 86:12.
Now I spend my days looking UP. I have that peace, security, and desire in my heart to see Him. I long for Him to come back, yet I know there is much to be done on this earth in preparation for that day. So I “occupy”. Until.
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:52.
For one of these days, I may not understand how my feet are going to get off the ground, but it is going to happen. I’m going to be “caught up” (insert excited, hyper voice here)!
I am going to FLY!
Stop.
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I loved reading this! I too have dreams, and I remember one time waking and feeling very disappointed. 🙂 Now that I have children, I have mixed feelings. I want to be taken up with the Lord, but at the same time I still want to have time to raise my children, and see them grown. Thanks for writing this! It was a pleasure to read & dream with you! 🙂
These are such powerful words, because they’re true:
“I could see it wasn’t even about ME, it was all about HIM.”
Amen!
For someone who has struggled (and, sad to say, still continues to struggle, off and on) with fears such as these, I find great comfort in knowing that it’s all about Him, not me! That my fears — always about something _I_ did or didn’t do, say, or get right, etc. — are simply no match for His unmistakable, unlosable, un-unreceivable GRACE.
Blessings to you Candace Jo…
Your grateful Weekend-Brew neighbor,
HBHW
So good to know there are others out there like me! 😉 And yes there are a few of us “over 50” bloggers! But when I first started back in March I too felt as if I was a grandmother in the blogging world! I don’t think it is as lopsided as it seems once I ventured out. And the younger generation has certainly embraced me and been more than kind. Thank you so much Julee Ann for stopping by, I would truly like to get to know you better! ♥
Yes we should Mary! Love that song too…just a few more weary days and then, I’ll fly away! Thank you for visiting today. Blessings.
Dear Nannette
Those kind of songs and preaching sounds a lot like religious manipulation even if unintended!! Who wouldn’t run to the altar when they are scared with the devil and hell. But to tell you the truth, I have no interest in following a god because I am afraid of him. The One whom I love and follow is love and where He is there is no fear for perfect love casts out all fear! I remember the days when I was scared out of my mind because of this kind of preaching and how I ran in circles in my attempts to earn His love and acceptance. Great post, my friend!
Blessings XX
Mia
Oh, I LOVE this. I, too, have experienced dreams about the rapture. I always wake up before I do or don’t start floating upward 😉 So many blogs I read are from young mothers … it’s nice to meet one more my age. God bless you today, I’ll be back here for more.
I listen for that sound daily!! Enjoyed visiting ~ Some glad morning when this life is o’er,
I’ll fly away. To a home on God’s celestial shore, I’ll fly away.