The Altar

The Altar

This past Sunday I found myself in a place with God where He was healing me from pain that happened over forty one years ago. Some of the biggest healings I've received spiritually and physically have happened outside the walls of a building.

Yesterday was no different as I found myself overlooking the lake and allowing God to have the pain from my biological dad. For my entire life I have waited and wondered would he ever come into my life. Now that I'm an adult, mom, wife and a very strong confident woman in my relationship with God I wasn't sure if I wanted him to ever appear or not.

But on Saturday evening as I waited and hoped for my husband to accompany me in Eufaula, Oklahoma. I soon felt a pain that was so deep I hardly recognized it when I realized he wasn't coming. Maybe I had pushed the pain down deep within my soul so I wouldn't feel it. But it still came up and it hurt. I began to question God on the "why" I was feeling this pain. I knew my husband was tired and couldn't make it. But yet I felt like I had lost hope and in the midst of the pain I knew God was trying to talk to me.

As I walked outside and looked up at the dark sky and the beautiful moon that only God could create He whispered to my heart "man has disappointed you but I promise you that my son Jesus is coming for you very soon."

I began to weep knowing that God knew a question I had in my heart that I have never asked a doubt that lingered in the back of my mind. It's been ten years since God saved me. Ten years since He promised me He would come back and get me and yet I wake up and each day I am still here. If you have ever experienced Heaven then you know where I'm coming from when I say "I'm ready to go back."

God is letting us know that Jesus is getting ready to return. And as crazy as it seems that we are living in the last days. That we are literally living in the last chapter of the bible and walking this out each day, it's real and it's true. One day this will all be over and when it is, only those who have made themselves prepared for Jesus will go.

We've heard it preached for thousands of years that one day Jesus is going to return and those who weren't ready will be left behind. Well what we've heard, what we've been taught is getting ready to come to pass. So get ready because when God makes a promise He keeps it!

Life Celebrant Anita J. Shipman