yesterday

hi ladies.... thank you for baring with me as I update my blog. Yesterday was a sorrowful day indeed. I knew something was funny Wed night when I got home and there was a call from my pastor, but no message. That's not like him. Thursday morning I checked my email and there were two emails from him, one in my work account, and one in my personal account asking me to call him right away. When I called him, I got news no one wants to hear. Ever. We had lost one of our precious church members in a car accident. A young man, Luke, died when he was driving home late, and took a turn too quickly and ended up hitting a tree. He died instantly upon impact. I just couldn't talk about it here yesterday. Not only did I need to make certain that my mother knew before she read it here - it was just too aweful to put into words.

We went and saw the family last night. Sharon, (Luke's mom) as you can imagine is just numb. He was only 18, was in his 2nd semester at college and had JUST accepted the Lord last month (Glory Glory Glory) as his personal savior. His step-father, Kevin, is just at a loss I think - trying to be there for everyone but not sure how to make this better. How could you? When we got to the house, Sharon was going thru Luke's pictures to pick out ones for the memory board. She hugged us and my boys and made certain they understood how horrible a day this was.

Interestingly enough - she knows and is not in denial that Luke's decision to speed, be out late at night all contributed to his death and she just kept telling the boys that they are not invincible and no match for a tree... and 2000 lbs of steel.

I know people will say things like - it was his 'time to go' and it was "God's will" and "you just never know when you are finished in this world" 0r my personal favourite "we are not promised our tomorrow"- but I disagree! Call me crazy, or maybe it's because I go to "that church" - but I just don't think any of these statements are biblical.

In Jeremiah we are told that God has GOOD plans for us, a plan to PROSPER and NOT HARM us. A plan to bring us to a GOOD and EXPECTED end. I don't believe that a car accident which you die instantly and is unexpected and leaves the car you were in a tangled, wrangled mess... is a good and expected end! And just as a parent, being evil knows how to give GOOD things to their children, How much MORE is God in heaven going to give good things to those who ask it? Why does this apply? because a parent, even the worst parent out there would NEVER wish this on their child... so why do we so 'readily' accept that God must have wanted 'another angel' ???? So he rips him from his parents arms so he can selfishly have him in heaven?

STOP with the un-biblical doctrine! you are not helping! God does not rip people from earth for himself. He does not cause car accidents, he does NOT destroy lives so that he can have people all to himself in heaven.

Where do we GET these crazy ideas??? It happened so God must have willed it? It happened so God must have caused it? Well God is sovereign. He Is all knowing. Yes he is. But we have an ENEMY! An Enemy that the bible says walks about as a roaring lion seeking whom he might DEVOUR. The bible says we have an enemy - who seeks to steal, kill and destroy. And yet people will lay this blame on God. How twisted and conveluted are we, as christians, believing the enemies lies that our Abba Father, our Daddy, our GOD would do something like this to someone??? No I'm sorry - the enemy did this - he attempted to devoure the lives of this precious Godly family. He seeks to steal their faith, kill their family (A NEW BELIEVER!) and destroy their lives.

I have news. God is BIGGER. God will bring glory thru this circumstance. His sisters will serve God, Luke's friends WILL come to know Jesus, and his memory will live on because we know we will be re-united with him in Heaven, one Glorious holy day.

But as Psalm 91:16 says "With Long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation"... that sounds like my tomorrow is promised to me.

Get ahold of this ladies. Figure it out for yourself. Don't just believe what you've been told by spiritual sounding people. Find out what the bible says - and speak it over your children. With LONG life My God will satisfy me. I will NOT check out of this world one moment before it is my appointed time to go. the Devil will NOT steal me from doing the will of God before God is finished with me. And when it is My time to go? I will know! Why will I know? Because the bible says in 1 Cor 2:16 - But who can know the mind of the Lord that we may teach Him? BUT we have been GIVEN the Mind of Christ!

I will know... and so will anyone who knows Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

My prayers and thoughts are with this family and I pray for salvation through it for Luke's friends, family and loved ones.