Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Welcome Aboard Jehovah Airlines Flight 777

ATTN:
Congratulations on choosing to fly with Jehovah Airlines! You’ve just claimed a free gift - a one-way ticket aboard Jehovah Airlines Flight 777 enroute to Heaven, where there’s a dream home waiting for you upon your scheduled arrival. However, to ensure smooth travel and avoid additional expenses and security complications, it would behoove you to travel lightly. No need for hefty and cumbersome suitcases – just avoid the hassle!
You should either choose to leave any heavy baggage behind at the door, or you may choose to take advantage of Jehovah Airlines’ baggage check-in services – just let the experts take the weight of that luggage off your shoulders! Plus, it’s FREE! I mean, on all other airlines, your bags cost more to fly than you do! Just let the dedicated baggage handlers of Jehovah Airlines take care of you!
As Christians, we’ve claimed our free gift – a one-way “trip” to spend all eternity with our Heavenly Father. There’s a beautiful paradise waiting for us, as Revelation 21 describes,
“The wall was constructed of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass…
The foundations of the city wall were decorated with every precious stone; the first course of stones was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh hyacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made from a single pearl; and the street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass.”
Then again, the Christian walk is not, as one of our beloved Catholic brothers at CBU would say, “a bowl of cherries”. It is most certainly not easy! But to move forward along that journey, a Christian must leave behind his or her baggage – sins, guilt, regrets, shortcomings - or rather, leave it in a professional baggage handler’s care. Our professional baggage handler is God, and when we seek His face both through prayer and reading His Word, He relieves us of this cumbersome baggage. As Christians if we choose to hold on to this bulky luggage, we will be burdened along our Christian walks, and our growth becomes stagnated, if not completely halted, like the traveler. There is no way that traveler can board that plane with a 100-lb rolling suitcase. HE or SHE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE. If the airline doesn’t get you, TSA (Transportation Security Administration) will!
Take advantage of God’s free service! If we will seek His services, He (Jehovah Jireh) provides all that we need to live in accordance with His ways, as Philippians 4:6 tells us, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”

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