It is okay to take your time in determining your relationship to God.  Belief never happens in a moment and faith takes time to grow from planted seed.  However, untended crops are left to the mercies of happenstance and those statistics are rarely favorable.  Just as in any relationship it takes intention, effort, action and endurance to cultivate a firm belief, reliance and dependence on God.  We must feed our minds with the Word of God, tasting it, testing it, learning that it is always Right and True.  We must spend time in mutual conversation with the Lord, sharing our hearts with Him and investing the quiet time necessary to be assured of His guidance.  We must walk the roads of this life having our faith tested so that it may grow stronger with each success or failure.  We must constructively build our endurance to trials through remaining consistent in thought, deed and grace opportunity.  The Lord created the universe by turning His thoughts into word and action, this is the example we were meant to follow and repeat.

Taking time to foster a good relationship is the most noble exercise.  Though much must be said about the circumstances, constraints and limitations of time, energy and opportunity.  We are now clearly deep into the end times, where the Lord may return for His Church and Judgment at any time.  Wars rage, pestilence and hunger consume and perceived freedoms dwindle with each passing day.  Time is in short supply and as we all know time cares not whether you are found among the prepared of those in eternal regret.

We are seeing signs, just as Jesus exclaimed would be evident as acknowledgement to the faithful of His return.  The earth has reached a point of disquiet mirroring the circumstances our Lord warned the Apostles of which to be aware.  It is time to prepare our crops for the harvest approaches.  It is time to fertilize, feed and water that which still remains hungry for the gathering approaches.  It is time to spend every possible quiet moment in prayer and consultation with God as He is our shelter, strength and salvation.  This old world ain’t goin much further but with God we shall soon get a glimpse of eternity.  Prepare your hearts, resolve your differences, make haste to your prayer closet and spend those precious moments getting to know our God.  Do the work so that you may see the results of our efforts in retrospect as He and you look back over a life well lived.  In Jesus’ Nighty Name, I stand only by the will of His outstretched hand lifting me upright.  Praise God in all His Glory and Might.  Forgive them Father as you once forgave me.