Pastor John,
Last night as I was getting into the shower, I raised my arm and a loud and painful “crunch” emanated from my shoulder area. For the first time, I felt the love of God toward mankind, in that pain.
I realized that with every ache and pain, every gray hair and degree of faded vision, Jesus is telling us all, “I’m coming.” The decline of our physical bodies is God helping us to see every day that He is true, and that this life is temporal; judgment is coming.
If God took a man in the prime of his life and health, it would come as a surprise to him. He would never know that time was running out.
God has loved us in putting us in these decaying vessels. Every ache and every pain is pleading with men to repent, while there is still time.
Jerry