Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
From gas prices to the price of a cantaloupe, it's getting harder and harder to pay for it all. Our cost of living has skyrocketed over the years. Don't you just love listening to people talk about when gas was .15 a gallon? It makes me think of Gomer standing at the gas station telling them that its a nickel for every ding. "We sell gas for a nickel a ding, but water and air are free" he would say. Well if he were working today he would have to tell you a different cost. Gas is definitely not a nickel and air is $1.00 at some gas stations. Let's not even talk about bottling water and selling it at a higher cost than soda or tea.
It's undeniably true that the cost of living is going up, up, up. But let me share something great with you this morning. The cost of living is going up, but some day so am I! If you as a Christian can't get excited about that then maybe you truly haven't been saved. Yes this old world will grow more sinful and grotesque by the minutes, but we are headed to a land that is better.
I love the lyrics to this old song...
- There’s a land beyond the river,
That we call the sweet forever,
And we only reach that shore by faith’s decree;
One by one we’ll gain the portals,
There to dwell with the immortals,
When they ring the golden bells for you and me. - Don’t you hear the bells now ringing?
- Don’t you hear the angels singing?
- ’Tis the glory hallelujah Jubilee.
- In that far-off sweet forever,
- Just beyond the shining river,
- When they ring the golden bells for you and me.
As the Cost of Living continues to rise always remember Christian, someday we will rise far above it all!
