October 29, 2014
A Message from the Shepherd’s Heart
I wonder have any of you ever found yourself face to face with the humanistic interrogative of what? The period in which you found yourself in a battle with the trilogy of the subconscious become personal and apparent where me, my, and I are at war because of some past experience. I am talking about when the pain is gone but the scar remains visible reminding you of your past. Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, what do you do when your past shows up without an invitation and brings three friends: misery, madness and mayhem, each presenting you with gifts to defeat, delete and deplete your present? I need to stay right here: perhaps you’ve been there as you read this message and wonder what will happen next. The reality is that your “right now” transitions you for the next level. In other words your past is a setup for the present. You do remember Brother Joseph’s pit experience which literally set him up for the entrance to the palace. It’s good to have a blessed memory to support your present testimony. In other words, you need to constantly and continuously tell your surroundings that if you only knew what God did for me. Some of you should be shouting right now because you know that you don’t look like what you’ve been through. Perhaps it was a divorce, disease, dilemma or danger. I need to remind you that your eulogy was interrupted by the trilogy of grace, which means listening audience. You can make it no matter how hard it gets and trust me, life will get hard, suffering will happen, people will turn against you, friends will become foes; but remember the Pauline epistle in Romans 8:18 “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” KJV
The bottom line is that it’s all good: the pains, the problems, the pressures-because of who you have with you, which is the presence of the Lord.
Until next time hang on, hold on and don’t let go of the promises of God. He is a promise keeper.
Yours in Christ,
Rev. Dr. Tony C. Person