My Lord and my Father in heaven, you are all things, you are my beginning and my end. You  are the very air that I breath, you are my sunrise and my sunset. I know from your holy Word, that you are the beginning and the end, you are the first and the last, you are the Great “I Am.”

You were here in the very beginning and you created all things by your Word; the land, sea and air are yours and I am only a very small part of what your created, but I am part of your creation according to your Word and according to your love.

I am here to love you with all that I am, I am here to worship you and no other, I am to seek you at every turn, to listen to your words to me and follow you all my life. There is no other reason for me to live, than to love and honor you, to give you my entire life and tell others of you.

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God”…is how the Bible begins and no matter, whatever happens, that is how it will stay. If you read Genesis 1, you will notice “And God said” and that is how it continues and that is how it will always be, because HE is God. Right to this very minute God is still the same, HE never wavers, HE never changes, HE has always been and HE will always be…GOD. Count on it!

God created everything. That being the case, everything will always point to GOD. Because GOD has always been, HE will continue to always be. Nothing happens without GOD knowing about it and that includes our lives—everything we think and everything we could ever know.

Yet the first thing we must know and understand is that HE loved us first. God came to this world and allowed HIS creation to beat HIM beyond recognition and then crucify HIM…because HE loves us.

We are the ones that are filled with sin, we are the ones that make all the mistakes. We are the ones that need saving from ourselves, because of our sins. That…is the reason God went to the Cross on Calvary. In our ignorance…we have committed all manner of sins….we are stained, we are fallen.

It is the blood that HE shed on that Cross…that covers our sins, if we are willing to seek God out and ask for HIS forgiveness. There is no other way to be cleansed, IF we wish to have  a relationship with HIM. Because of our sins…there is NO way we can save ourselves or each other.

Revelation 1:8 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:17-19 “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.”

In Revelation chapters 2-3, the letters to the churches all end with: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Think on these words, on that saying and know that the Lord God Almighty KNOWS whether you understand them or not. GOD knows your heart, HE knows your every thoughts every day of your life.

Your reason for being alive, having been created, is to love and honor HIM. The Lord God Almighty wants a people that HE can call HIS own, who will love and honor HIM, as HE loves us. Hence, the next breath that you are able to breathe.

HE gives you so many days to live here, HE gives you every opportunity to come to HIM and seek HIM, to give your life to HIM. For this HE is willing to give you an eternity that makes the universe pale in comparison. It will be beyond anything you could ever imagine. This life here is but the very first step you take in eternity and yet it is the shortest step.

How you act here in this life, tells others what you believe. Think about that. You are here to make one decision and that decision is whether you will seek God and follow HIM.

You were NOT created to live fancy lives or to live lives of debauchery and sin. Your spirit was created in the likeness of the Lord God. Your body will cease to exist one day, yet what you have done with it has been recorded, every single instance.

Those who choose to follow Jesus Christ…GOD…will have their name written in the Lamb’s book of life. These are the ones that have an eternity with GOD in heaven. Anything other, any other belief in any other GOD…will fail.

You must come to The Lord God Almighty in sincere prayer and ask HIM to save you, to cover your sins with HIS blood from the Cross at Calvary. THAT…is the ONLY way to an eternity in heaven…THAT…is your only reason for living here. THAT…was the reason you were created. THAT…is what the Word of GOD…the BIBLE says and it is absolute truth.

John 14:5-11 “Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father,   and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me,   Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works sake.”

My greatest memory as a child is this: Sitting in the sweltering Texas tent-revivals and looking out across the field we were in and watching the waves of heat undulate. People were there to seek the Lord and to listen to HIS Holy Word—the Bible. They had questions about why we are all here on earth, the reason or purpose.

That revival preacher bellowed and hollered at us, that we were fallen because of our sins…that’s right…OUR SIN! He would slam books down and beat on the podium, trying desperately to get the Word of God, concerning our salvation across to us.

One day will come when each of us will stand before our righteous God and HE will look to see if our name is written in the Lamb’s book of life. If it is there, GOD will welcome us home. If it was NOT written there, we would be ushered into HELL. And it was as simple as that. That message still rings true today.

Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”

Micah 7:18-19 “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”

I listened to those tent revivalists, yes I was afraid because they were so loud; but the message stuck in my heart. That was the important thing. Today, I clearly understand what they were yelling about and they should have been yelling it from the rooftops every where they went. I KNOW these things are absolute truth and I KNOW I am going to heaven to be with my Lord and God forever!

So, if I may…think of me as one of those revivalists…hollering and yelling at the top of my lungs. Jesus Christ is coming and HE is coming soon…probably sooner than any of us realize. The last question is this: Where will YOU go after this life here on earth?”

Well…here we are and it’s definitely spring and it has definitely sprung. Praise the Lord for this. Is anyone else as happy about this as I am? We should always go before the Lord God and give Him praise for all that He blesses us with, and that goes right down to the very next breath of air we take. I believe in my heart one of the worst things we are doing right now, is forgetting to praise and thank the Lord for His blessings.

Isaiah 46:3-5 “Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?”

We, as humans are so wrapped up in our own little world with all its problems; theindecisions, the waiting and thedoubtsthatwe experience result in things we may not expect. Why is it, that we wait so long to come and ask of the Lord?

Why is it that we “assume” so many things on a daily basis—when the answer to every problem is in the Lord and all one needs to do is to come to the Lord God Almighty and ask? Having problems with your wife or husband, your kids, neighbors? Then what in heaven’s name are you waiting on? Go to the Lord.

How odd is it? We never realize, that it is you and me who make assumptions (as in assuming everything), when the problems we experience are so incredibly small, so self-centering and conceited, that we are never able to see our dilemma as we should.

Yet our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ IS Almighty God and HE already knows everything and every aspect of our lives, even long before HE created the universe. Having said that, why do we not throw our entire lives at His feet and ask Him to show us what we need to be doing every day of our lives?

Psalm 55:22-23 “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.”

My friends, this is a promise from the Lord God Almighty. Why is it sodifficult for us to look around and see that this is how the world is, and that we do not have to be afraid? Reread the passage of Scripture above and KNOW it is the truth; it is according to God Almighty and you can surely depend upon it!

If you are not willing to go to the Bible and read it, then why should the Lord God sustain you? I am not saying that HE does not, I am saying that HE looks at the intent of your heart; where your treasure is and who is first in your life.

Love is a very unique thing when we consider that it comes from the Father above. Even for those people that are so wrapped up in their own lives that they never give the Lord God HIS due diligence. They are so focused on what they want; things like wealth, big houses and expensive cars that they never give the Lord a second thought.

They never realize that their next breath of air is dependent on the Lord God. What would all those things matter if the Lord God said NO to the next breath of air? Would you feel that God Almighty was not fair to you? Then why is it so hard for you to give the Lord God the praise that He deserves? By His Word, the universe hangs together as it does.

I am now 65 years old and I have been in many strange circumstances. I have lived a long and fruitful life. Yet I KNOW…the Lord God Almighty has sustained every single second of this life, and I am always quick to give Him the thanks and the praise He deserves. And to think of all that we have done wrong, yet the Lord God STILL LOVES US. HE STILL FORGIVES OUR SINS. He still sustains our every second of life!

The Lord God wants people who will LOVE HIM…as HE LOVES US. Of course we humans would never be able to love Him like He loves us. But the effort by you and me should always be there. How odd is it that there are so many people in this world that hate God, that say they rule their own lives, and that they stand alone and have always done for themselves?

NEVER ONCE…realizing that their next breath of air comes from the Lord. I keep using that same point because it is so simple to recognize and each of us need that next breath of air, to simply live for another minute.

The Word of God tells us that GOD ALMIGHTY created us and did so in His Image (Genesis). Yet for many they believe they are gods; that whoever they are, they are so because of what they have done—never once realizing that none of it (their lives) would be possible without that next breath of air.

Right now many, many people are taking their very first breath of air, just out of the womb and many, many others are taking their very last breath of air. And so very, very few think to praise the Lord for such a simple act of love.

How many people do you know that squander away their lives on things like wealth and treasures of this world when they already know…life here on earth is temporary and so very short?

The Word of God tells us that our lives are as a vapor (James 4:14). We are here for a very short time and then life vanishes. If that is the case what weneed do before anything else is prepare for our journey in eternity. Why are people so shortsighted? It isunbelievablein the least!

Okay. So after all of this, I want to make it very, very, short and simple. To live another moment, you NEED that next breath of air. Where did this NEED come from and how is it provided? To live on earth we need the air around us, thus we now know the Lord God provided the air for us. We see and know that the Lord God provided that next breath of air, and yet, that breath of air will only sustain us for one moment.

Therefore, the Lord God provided a succession of breaths, o we can live. And each of us know that a day is coming when that next breath of air will be our last and our existence on earth will cease. And somewhere along the way, everyone expects the air to be there each and every time. But what if it stops? Obviously, we did not create the air, nor do we control it in any way. Do you see ourdependenceon the Lord now?

Your life here on earth is to complete one thing; to live your life according to the Lord God’s perfect will…or not. Yet it is your decision!

Simply said, you live your life according to the Lord God or you live according to Satan and his ilk. Your life may be short or long and again that is according to the Lord God—His will for your life.

Trust the Word of God when it says when you live life for Jesus Christ your eternity will be with Him. Live for yourself, according to this evil world and you will be living for Satan and his ilk; your eternity will with them—in the lake of fire. It’s one way or the other, there is NO other way!

Let’s be honest here, Your life will be lived according to the Lord, or the highway. That highway is headed for hell and the lake of fire—destruction for eternity. We are given one chance, one choice, one decision. It will be either Jesus Christ or Satan and his ilk. Heaven or hell. That is what life is all about; it matters little whether you believe that or not. So now the question is this: What day or moment will you die? Just one breath after the other, right?