FOLLOWING THE MASTER

Hope you enjoyed a chocolate-filled Halloween!

Doesn’t it seem a little odd that we get so much fun out of an event focused on things that frighten us and even the subject of death. We usually prefer laughter and candy and costumes to facing the things that frighten us, but face them we must. So how can we best prepare ourselves for our final days?

A Bible professor once wrote of a man who had gotten a very bad diagnosis. He begged his doctor for some comforting words about heaven. The doctor, who was a Christian, heard his dog scratching at the door. “Can you hear my dog scratching at your door?” inquired the physician. The sick man assured him that he could. “Well,” the doctor said, “Heaven must be like that. My dog does not know what is in this room. He only knows he wants to be with me. So it is with Heaven! Our Master is there. That is all we need to know!” [1]

No matter the spooky and scary things that come along in life, as followers of Jesus, we know who our Master is, and we can trust His words of comfort:

1 Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also. -- John 14:1-3 (CSB)

[1] Jeremiah, J. T. (2001). The place called heaven. Regular Baptist Press.

Jamie McElrath,

Senior Pastor