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"Awesome Thoughts"

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Just the this past Saturday night, I sat at the table with my wife and daughter and some very dear friends of ours eating my favorite dish.  Well, I didn't actually eat the dish, but it was my favorite food that we ate, which is salmon stew.  I feel as though I should have capitalized Salmon Stew, because I love it so much, but salmon stew is not what this article is about, though it is an awesome thought in itself.  Anyway, while we sat there eating and enjoying the fellowship with our friends, my wife began telling of a family she knows in which the man in the family is a doctor.  Not just any doctor, but a heart specialist.  As my wife was telling all about the wealth of this doctor and the mansion he and his family live in, the Lord began telling me a story of a truly wealthy man.  Well, as He told me of this man, I began to realize who this man was and I just couldn't wait until Thanksgiving Day to begin praising Him.  You see, this man was me.

 There I sat with my wife and little girl who the Lord gave me and who for reasons I will never understand, love me dearly.  And across the table were friends who the Lord has given me and who also for reasons I will never understand, love me too.  There we all sat, eating salmon stew no less.  How wealthy can a man get?  But wait.  As you have noticed, I said the Lord was telling me this story and I said the Lord gave me my family and I said the Lord gave me those dear friends.  Yes, you see, the Lord saved me on Friday the 13th of November in 1992.  How truly wealthy can a man get?

 I have another friend who the Lord gave me and who also for reasons I will never understand loves me.  This friend is the man who the Lord so graciously used to lead me to Him.  This friend, I believe with all my heart walks more closely to God than any other man on this earth and I believe also that he would be scared to death to tell a lie.  This man has more friends than all my acquaintances, whether friends or enemies or just people I know or know of  put together and he told me recently that he prays for me every day.  Now, that may not seem all that awesome to you, but it's beyond my comprehension.  I have been praying for this man every day for about three years now, but compared to him, I'm a hermit and I don't even know as many people as he has as friends.  And yet, out of all those friends, he prays for me every day.

But wait, I have another friend, who for reasons I will never understand, loves me.  He is the Lord.  Jesus said, "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.  Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, He may give it you."  John 15:15-16.  And guess what, He prays for me every day too.  Now, that's an awesome thought!

But that's not all this tremendously wealthy man has.  Remember the mansion my wife had been describing that belonged to the doctor?  Well, I have a mansion being built as I write this little article.  This mansion will make that doctor's mansion look like a little shack.  God created everything in this world in just six days and it took me with His help about two years to build this house I now live in, but my new home has been about two thousand years in preparing and God Himself is the builder.  Can you imagine the glory and the majesty of this mansion?  Of course you can't.  Nobody can.  God gives us a glimpse of it in the book of Revelation and chapter 21, verses 9-27.  If you have never read it, please read it. 

I used to say, "It's bad to be poor and ugly too."  Well friends, I may be ugly as they come, but I'm certainly not poor.  One day I'm going to that new home in glory and I hope you'll be there too.  If you haven't yet, why don't you arrange it with Jesus and make it your home too?  He's just waiting on you.