Inspiration's Source

The source of my inspiration is the Creator Himself.

He is the Master Designer! He made the entire universe and all the marvelous creations in it - like clouds, trees, seas and all life.

Without Him, our hearts wouldn't even keep beating. In fact, they never would have started to beat.

Several years ago I experienced the symptoms of congestive heart failure. The doctor ordered that my heart be monitored on a screen that showed each time a valve opened to let blood flow through. As my heart beat regularly, it was awe-inspiring watching it.

It turned out that there was nothing wrong with my heart at that time except for an allergic reaction to niacin.

However, I have the joyful assurance that when my heart stops beating, I'll be home with the Lord! My assurance of going to be with God someday is not because I'm so wonderful -- far from it!

My heavenly hope is built only on God's great gift of His Son -- our Lord Jesus Christ. He died to save sinners and to wash them from their sins with His own blood! But He didn't stay dead! He rose again from the dead after three days! Forty days later he ascended into heaven and will return to earth again -- perhaps very soon!

Are you ready for that great day?

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It's been said that just because you might find a mouse in a cooky jar, that doesn't make it a cooky!

Just because lots of people say they are Christians, that doesn't necessarily mean that they truly know the Lord.

Do you mind if I tell you how Jesus brought me to Himself?

My family of origin was intellectual and creative with several family members being accomplished musicians and artists. Some of them believed there are many different roads to God.

I grew up agreeing with that idea too. However, as a child I attended Sunday School for a while and memorized several Bible verses. One of them was Romans 6:23 –

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

That verse followed me for years and I couldn't get it out of my head.

When I was eight years old, tragedy struck our home on Valentine's Day when my young 36-year-old father suddenly died of a heart attack.  After he died I began to have horrible nightmares of huge black widow spiders crawling all over the walls of my bedroom. I was afraid to go to sleep at  night and tried hard not to fall asleep for as long as possible.

Before my father died my mother was a full time homemaker, but after his death I became a latchkey kid at the age of eight. My little sister was at a babysitter's, but I was home alone every day after school. I became very very lonely.

Tragedy struck again when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was thirteen years of age.

During my high school years she became too sick to continue working and so my brother and I worked to provide for our family. He worked full time after graduating from Dorsey high school while I worked part time while attending school. I also cleaned our house and did the cooking.

When I admitted to a classmate how lonely I was, she suggested I join a church youth group.  As for my spiritual condition, I wondered if Jesus is God's Son and I asked the Lord to show me if He is. A lady had visited our family from a local church and so I joined the youth group at her church.

When I was fifteen years old our high school group went to winter camp at Forest Home Christian conference grounds in the San Bernardino mountains. What a special time that was for me!

One evening the speaker told us about Christ's suffering on the cross for us. During the message suddenly the Lord opened my eyes.  I instantly realized Jesus had died for me! He had taken the punishment I deserved for breaking His law by dying on the cross and rising again three days later.

I believed what Jesus said when He stated in the Gospel of John chapter 14 and verse 6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father, but by me.”

God  gave me a great desire to read and memorize His Word and to attend church faithfully and to tell others about Him. My eyes were opened to see things I had never seen before. An old hymn states “Heaven above is softer blue, earth around is sweeter green. Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen.”

John 3:16 assures me I am God's child. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”

Though I have experienced many sorrows, Jesus has been with me always and comforts, guides and gives me peace. Even when my first husband died of cancer when I was only thirty years old and my granddaughter died in November 2008, He comforts me and gives me peace and joy.

I am thrilled with life in Christ! Since He wants to live His life through me, I am privileged to live the Great Adventure!

I'm looking forward to seeing Jesus face to face soon.