I Will Come and Get You

February 19, 2015

I Will Come and Get You

Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.

John 11:25

I am iced-in this morning. A few inches of snow yesterday was followed by hours of freezing rain resulting in a three-inch layer of solid ice on our driveway and the roads in our neighborhood. The upside is that it was crisp and refreshing this morning when we put ice cleats on our duck shoes to take the dogs for their morning walk. They did a fair amount of slipping and sliding, but we were OK. The downside is that we may be iced-in for a few more days; but that is OK because we have all we need.

As I look out at the beauty and serenity of snowed-covered streets and houses, I keep thinking back to the image of twenty-one brothers in Christ, clad in orange jump suits, kneeling in front of their executioners. Someone reported their last words were, “Help us, Jesus!” I suspect their murderers laughed as no help intervened and stopped the brutal martyrdom of those saints of God. The terrorists don’t grasp the truth of all truths. Jesus didn’t say we wouldn’t die. He said “Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.”

So far in my life I have never run out of options. No matter the crisis, I have always had resources, either mine, or of others willing to share, to enable me to deal with the crisis. Oh yes, I have been battered and bruised by life; my life certainly hasn’t been a bed of roses. But I have never been without hope. However, my help has always been in me, or in my family and friends. Be it a blessing or a curse, I have never been without an option. Both Corrie ten Boom, and Mother Teresa have been quoted as saying, “You will never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.” Our brothers on a beach in Libya came to the place where Jesus was all they had, and they asked him for help.

What their murderers couldn’t see was the faith of these martyrs becoming sight as Jesus fulfilled his promise to “come and get (them), so that (they) will always be with me where I am” (John 14:3).

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms is available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ  is available as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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