The Devotional - A Look at the Book #579

The Devotional - A Look at the Book #579

by Jesse Abel

Papa J's rules for Livin #3

Traveling the information highway has a lazy drawback! The more time you spend touring on this unrestricted avenue; the less time you will spend traveling the upright supernatural highway. Proverbs 15:19

The Devotional

When “Hospice” comes for a visit it is not long before someone within the household dies physically! This program is very good since families do not experience the loss of family members on a regular basis and seldom know how to deal with the various events leading up to the death. As an EMT there has been an opportunity or two to visit a home where people are dying without hospice involvement. Most often in these cases a person will be in a physical condition called; “agonal respiration,” aka dying respirations which is a few breaths per minute that cannot support life. When people are in this condition, medical professionals can do all of the right things but lose the battle, the person is just to sick to stay alive. Now place this condition on a nation! This is my take on the United States of America, my home, your home and supposedly the home of future generations. Does this mean anything to us? Are we doing all of the right things, but losing the battle? Is it too late? If we cannot answer these questions, then guess what! Our respiration rate is insufficient to support life. Our government was formed: Of the people, by the people and for the people. Yet in this day of our lives; if you are nine months from being borne; the twenty year old soldier is in a safer zone of life. And of course if you are sixty five or older you might be forced to give your medical rights to some foreigner who socially steals from the pockets of working people because he or she is an illegal resident. All of this is accomplished by the unsupportive respirations of “freedom of choice” and “pro life” sounds of cancerous political disorder and terminal political corruption.

2 Corinthians 12

2 Corinthians 12:2-6 – How good it is to return each morning to the Living Word of God by which we are cleansed daily by the Power of God. John 4:10-14 individually and as a church family we are daily being made to drink in and bathed in the Water of Life by the Word of God. Ephesians 5:26. Also many other passages that are statements from God that it is His will to sanctify His saints in truth.

The apostle Paul does not identify himself as the person who was spiritually caught up into the third heaven, but based on the event we know that Paul is talking of his own experience. If you are a student of the Word of God, no doubt you have been taken on a spiritual journey or two in your time spent in the Word. The joys of these events are truly inexpressible and full of glory. And really these events are for you and God and have little to do with sharing with another since these cannot be explained with any success. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

More explainable then are the infirmities that we deal with; why…? 1 Corinthians 10: 12-13 explains that our infirmities are common to all of mankind and spiritual revelation is not. So the apostle desires to display his weaknesses in order that the power of God, which is excellent will glorify God and not the apostle as He relies on the Spirit of God to work through him.