The Scary World We Live In

“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21 KJV

I remember years ago, a couple of years after I accepted Christ as my savior, I had a dream. I had a dream that Jesus was coming back to take us, His children, home. In my dream I told God I wasn’t ready yet. I said I had so much I wanted to do. Immediately I woke up in a sweat, terrified more than I had ever been by any nightmare. That was over 35 years ago.
Three years ago the car accident that threatened to take my life taught me some valuable lessons. As I was being taken to emergency surgery and as I was drifting off, I saw the most beautiful vision. A vision that resembled fields of wild flowers. This vision included an inner peace that words can not even begin to express. I rested in that peace and told our Heavenly Father I was ready to go with Him. But He said, no, not yet. Then an angel spoke to me and assured me everything was going to be ok. That experience filled me with peace and joy that stayed with me throughout my recovery and even today.
Three years ago I learned what Paul meant when he said, “To live is Christ and to die is Gain”. I never understood that before that day. We don’t know when Jesus Christ will return any more than we know when we will leave this earth. To be prepared for Jesus’s return I feel is two fold. Either we die or Christ will return, one of those will happen in our lifetime and we must be ready.
The Bible tells us that this world is going to get worse. We see the Bible prophesies unfolding right in front of our eyes. The only way any of us are going to make it through this life is by a faith in God, by letting the Holy Spirit fill us, by resting in His peace.
I won’t lie, it scares me. Life scares me. I have anxiety with physical symptoms. More so now since my accident and heart attack. (Both within 5 months of each other.) Even though the physical symptoms of anxiety are real, and they tend to magnify the anxiety, I find that now I go to Christ more easily and quicker than I ever did before. The act of praying, reading scripture, or better yet having the scripture read aloud from the technology of our phones and wifi, as well as listening to christian music are all ways that I deal with the anxiety. When possible, writing for me also helps, as well as sleep and being involved with a hobby or people. But the most effective for me is listening to scripture and praising our Holy Father in prayer and song.
The experiences I had were not pleasant experiences, and I wouldn’t wish them on anybody, but they did help me grow and taught me faith and contentment. In fact this blog is a product of this experience.

Prayer, worship, scripture, faith…these are key to keeping sane, to keep our eyes on our Heavenly Father.

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