Don't Wait Until It's Too Late

Hello loves.

As I was driving to church this evening I heard the sirens of a firetruck and it sped past my street. I stopped at a stop sign on the corner and saw billows of black smoke filling the air. It took a few second for everything to register but then when I saw two more fire trucks accompanied with sirens, it clicked. Something is on fire! I saw that the smoke was coming from what looked like my church. I immediately started worrying and getting nervous. Traffic was blocked in certain areas so cars wouldn't stop passing in front of me. I was stuck at the stop sign and couldn't move, praying and pleading that it wasn't my church and if it was that no one was hurt. Finally, the traffic was clear and I was a nervous wreck. I approached closer to all of the commotion and saw the flames. No, it wasn't my church, thank God. But it still broke my heart that everything that someone had was now gone. Their home was consumed with a blazing fire. I pray no one was inside. All of these people's earthly possessions were gone. Just like that. I went into the church relieved but still shaken up, and burst into tears my heart going out to that family. Then I had to repent for forsaking God's house. You see, I hadn't been to church since Sunday and that is not like me. We have Monday night prayer meeting and Wednesday night church service but I wasn't there. It's not like I had good reason not to be there, I just didn't go. If that would have been my church that was set ablaze, I would have missed my last opportunity to worship there. This is the church that I grew up in, the church I got baptized in, and received the Holy Ghost in; the church I taught in, the church my god-sons, as well as I, was dedicated to the Lord in. Yes, we could build another church building. It would never be the same as the original though. The Word says

"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." -Hebrews 10:25

The end is quickly approaching, and it's so important now more than ever to make it to church where our brothers and sisters in the Lord are.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." -Matthew 18:20

"How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?" -Deuteronomy 32:30

There is power in numbers. If we take those things that we may be struggling with that we don't have the power to fight on our own and join with our brothers and sisters, then we can overcome those things. The battle is great in these last days. We have to utilize every bit of truth that we have to make it. And we CAN make it, God already gave us everything that we need. Don't wait until it's too late. Use it now. Be encouraged y'all.

Much love,

Rita