✝ Daily Encouragement (11/19/24) "Our Time Of Departure"
Published: Tue, 11/19/24
Updated: Tue, 11/19/24
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Sunset
over
the
Susquehanna
River
on the White
Cliffs of
Conoy along
the Northwest
Lancaster
County River
Trail. These
cliffs are
actually
industrial
waste from a
limestone
processing
plant dating
back to the
mid-1800s.
Click on photo to enlarge "Our Time Of Departure" Note:
This
week's daily
encouragement
messages (as
well as the
last two
messages from
last week) are
from a study
prepared for
our Crossroads
Adult Bible
Fellowship
class this
last Sunday
based on
teaching from
2 Timothy
4:1-8. Message summary: Life's greatest transition, the time of our departure will come for us all. Are you prepared? Each of us is scheduled for a future departure. Though we don't know the time of our departure we can have an assurance of where we will arrive.
Listen
to our message
on your audio
player.
We are a moment, You are forever Lord of the ages, God before time We are a vapor, You are eternal Love everlasting, reigning on high
Imagine if we had access to such information for human departures, especially our own. That's a "flight" where we may welcome the "delayed" designation, depending on the circumstances, of course!
If
such a site
were available
it would be
the most
visited site
on the web.
Practically
everyone would
have it
bookmarked.
What
if the online
departure
board not only
stated the
time of
departure but
the
destination as
well, along
with the
person's name!
We
would be
interested not
only in our
own
destination
and departure
but that of
others as
well, for good
reason! Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13 Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Additional departure memory. My (Stephen) dad died in 1998. After he died I took my my brother to the KC airport where he flew back from Kansas City to eastern Pennsylvania where he pastored at that time. TheTWA flight he was scheduled for was canceled so they put him on a Continental. This required going to a completely different terminal at the KC airport where my brother and I talked and had a cup of coffee. I bid him farewell and was walking through the terminal to catch a shuttle bus when I ran in to someone very special. I committed my life to Jesus in a meeting in Kansas City Missouri on a hot Sunday evening in August of 1971. The preacher that night was Lowell Lundstrom. Now nearly 27 years later I "by chance" ran into him at the KC airport. (He's not from the KC area, but was connecting to Minneapolis.) After telling him my story, he was thrilled to hear of a convert who had stayed the course, so perhaps I was a blessing to him as well. We walked back to my brother for a few minutes and he shared words of comfort with us regarding the passing of our father. His illustration was helpful and appropriate as he shared how my Dad took an earlier departure. Isn't that an interesting perspective? After a few minutes of fellowship his flight boarded and our brief "chance encounter" ended. That was the last time I ever saw him and he too is now with the Lord.
This
brings to mind
another
airport chance
encounter when
my dad was
still living
but in need. I
lived in New
England at the
time and had
flown from
Boston to KC
connecting
through
Dallas, a huge
very spread
out airport.
Getting off
the plane I
saw Dave
Simpson, my
best friend
from 1st
grade, who was
traveling to
Florida for
business. We
visited for a
few minutes
and had a
pizza
together. Dave
is my longest
term friend I
have stayed
connected with
in life. He
had his 70th
birthday
yesterday so I
texted him and
identified him
by his
childhood
phone number,
which I still
have
memorized. He
texted back
identifying me
by my
childhood
phone number!
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources "Hello After Goodbye" Listen on YouTube Legacy Five "All My Tears" Listen on YouTube Selah
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