Why should I fear it?

[debrakay]

31 minutes ago, MonicaWife said:

I'm sorry to hear about your husband. 😔 

Even if I don't fear death for myself anymore, I must say that I am not sure how I should tackle it if Abba Father chose to take my husband Home before me. Just thinking about it makes me cry 😢, because I would miss him so much! It is selfish, but I can't help it, but I know that the Lord will help me out if so be. 

I'm praying that He will take us Home at the same time, if possible. 😊 I know about a couple who prayed for this, and the Lord took them Home only with a 3 hours distance. 

We knew when we married 40 years ago that the 13 year age difference and his health conditions would have an impact if the Lord allowed us to have a long happy life together.  My only health issue is some extra weight so unless the Lord says and knows differently I should have 20 more years.  I don't like the thought of life without him but it has been expected.  I have never lived alone since I moved out of home at age 18 so living without a strong man to help out will be a big change for me.  New seasons of life can be challenging but we have a wonderful Father who loves us and wants us to live happily and peacefully in all seasons of life.  

[debrakay]

Last week I wrote this and felt the nudge of the Holy Spirit to share. 

God Made Man

I love the word of God.  There is so much deep inside of the verses set before us and there are times He will lead us to search the meaning.  Today I fell on this beautiful scripture that records the first man that God created.

'Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. '
Genesis 2:7

These words came to Moses from the Father and were recorded.  Moses would have used a Hebrew form of language and most of the words have more than one meaning.  I wanted to study the words dust and ground that the first man was formed from and see what the Holy Spirit might reveal.

The first man is whom we call Adam because the Hebrew words for man is adam, pronounced awdawm.  The meaning of awdawm is ruddy (having a redness), human, the species of mankind, person, man.  The word awdawm is derived from another Hebrew word adam, pronounced awdam, which means to show blood, turn rosy, ruddy, red.  From these words we can understand that the verse says  "Then the Lord God made adam", a man with red blood.  

This adam, man, was made from the "dust of the ground". The Hebrew word dust is aphar, pronounced awfar, meaning dust (powder, gray) ashes, clay, earth, ground.  The word gray puzzled me.  Why would the color gray be a part of the meaning of the word dust?  Because dust is gray and has no life.  It is dry and barren of life. Ashes are the same being nothing but a gray powder. 

Moving to the word ground, it is the Hebrew word adamah, pronounced adawmaw.  Adamah means soil, earth, land, ground but is derived from a second Hebrew word adam, pronounced awdam, having the meaning of blood, red.

God the Father took some of the dry, lifeless gray dust, a pile of ashes, from the earth He had just created the week before and formed man, adam in the Hebrew language.  Then the miraculous happened. The Father breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of His man.   The soil, the earth, the ground, the gray dust He had gathered became blood red, ruddy, and the dust was gray and lifeless no longer.

When Father God breathed life into the nostrils of the adam, he became a living soul.  Adam had become a living, breathing, blood red, person, body, life, a single individual man.  What was moments before, only gray lifeless dust had been changed into a red blooded soul, breathing life.  The Father had made the perfect adam from His the new earth He had created.  He had made this adam in His image to share all of this new earthly creation with and specifically placed adam into a garden He had made to the east of where He had created adam in a place He called Eden. I love that the word Eden means a fenced, delicate, delightful, pleasurable garden.  The Father had made the perfect home for His man, His Adam.

- April 16, 2022 by DebraKay

[Sower]

3 hours ago, Marathoner said:

There was work to be done, so Christ equipped me to walk in it. 

Succinct, to the point! 
I have a regular conversation with God about just what you said.
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If you take me home tonight Lord, God be praised.
But!  I would hope for more time Lord to be a blessing to you and others.
You continue to supply me with work, that I can share the fruits with others.
You continue to bring the lost and hurting to our shop that we might share the word.
You continue to bless my health and strength to work in our shop.
You continue to give me breath, and enthusiasm for life.
You fill me with so much gratefulness, and then there is the Joy.
Can't describe joy, it comes at the weirdest times, but it carries me through.
I don't know why you bless me so much with such great favor, Lord.....
Jesus, you were a carpenter also, so you know we will have to get back to work now. "There is still work to be done"....        Bless the readers also, Lord....