"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world." ~ Billy Graham

Good morning and I do bid each one a hearty hello and warm welcome. It's a good day to rise and shine and give God the glory on this Tuesday, May 20, 2025. As many of you know, the wife along with her sister are over in Louisiana seeing after their beloved brother Cleon who is 89 years young. Cleon has had a rough few weeks and has now been allowed to return home from the hospital on hospice care. He has said he is ready to go for a long time but just recently he came to realize he wasn't sure about his standing with God. So, the girls, lead him in the sinners prayer and he was gloriously saved. Now he is super ready to leave this old world. Those girls don't have to wait to get to heaven to exercise their praise, worship, and shouting. They did all of that when he was once and for all set free from the sentence and curse of sin. Some want to argue with those who doubt their salvation and try to convince them they are okay. We had a dear pastor many years ago who had a very different approach. If someone expressed concern and couldn't find a peace about their relationship with God, he would immediately get them on their knees to call on the Lord to save them. But, what if they were already saved? Here's what truth says, "Who ever calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13) And, "who ever believes in Him will not perish but will have eternal life." (John 3:16) At any rate, Cleon is home now and he is so happy to be there as he anticipates, whenever the time comes, to seeing His Savior and his many loved ones who will be there to greet him. All of this sounds morbid to you? Squire Parsons who passed away recently was a tremendous Gospel song writer, singer, and minister for the Lord, he wrote a song with speaks to me about this so called morbid discussion of death (Look it up on YouTube, it will bless your socks off.):

 

I call it Home

 

Somewhere beyond the grave there is a land,
Where Jesus went to prepare by His own hand;
And for the saved by grace there is a resting place,
And in a few more days it will be mine.

Some call it Heaven, I call it Home,
Some call it dreamin', let me dream on;
Some call it Paradise, somewhere beyond the skies,
Some call it Heaven, I call it Home.

Someone said you can't go back home again,
Things will not ever be as good as they've been;
I've got good news for you, when Heaven comes into view,
One glimpse and you'll know the best is yet to come.

Some call it Heaven, I call it Home,
Some call it dreamin', well let me dream on;
Some call it Paradise, somewhere beyond the skies,
Some call it Heaven, I call it Home.

Some call it Paradise, somewhere beyond the skies,
Some call it Heaven, I call it Home.

 

I can only say this about that. I look at Cleon at 89 and I look at myself at soon to be 79, and, I am aware that my time is not that far off. I've lived a lot of wobbliness in my time here, but, the closer I get to that time when I will see Him, well, I, like the Apostle Paul, I am torn between staying here as long as I can or going on to be with Jesus. (Philippians 1:21-24) Let me be clear. I am like the Apostle Paul in this one facet, I certainly would never compare myself to him in any other area of his remarkable service to the Lord. I mention this because the closer I get it is the more I realize what I don't know. I love the songs. I love the stories about heaven. I love people's concept of how it will be, but, I'm pretty much stuck with only what I know from The Scripture and the one I am clinging to says that "where I am, there you will be also." (Gospel of John, Chapter 14, Verse 3)  One day I will experience the reality of that promise from my Lord and Savior. This means all the rest will be icing on the cake. I did not say we will have cake in heaven. (Certainly not Devil's food cake or cleaning done with Dirt Devil devices.) Just joking around and the icing comment was only a figure of speech. My final point. If you have any doubt whatsoever, get with God and get it right. Now. Right now, as in, at this very moment!

 

Pay attention to this prophetic confession uttered by one of the oldest Bible characters, the man Job as recorded in Job 19:25-27:

 

For I know that my Redeemer lives,
And He shall stand at last on the earth;
And after my skin is destroyed, this I know,
That in my flesh I shall see God,
Whom I shall see for myself,
And my eyes shall behold, and not another.
How my heart yearns within me!

 

Okay, that's enough yearning for one day. Right. Y'all take care out there and don't forget to come back to see me, right here at the Ole Blogger Ranch. May God add His blessings. Amen.