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READ GENESIS 3-5. According to the Scriptures we are instructed to CONSIDER JESUS (Hebrews 3:1). There are many realities worthy of our undivided attention but none so important as this one. Considering Jesus is life changing and crucial for a successful Christian journey from earth to Heaven, our eternal home. I suppose it would not be an exaggeration if I said that we could consider Jesus in each of the remaining three hundred sixty-three days in 2024 and we would only barely entered His realities. A serious believer would do well to consider Jesus as we begin a new year—beginning each day and several times throughout each day.
Sue (who will be 86 on February 9) and I (now living my 89th year of life) considered our witness after our passages to Heaven. We, with the help of our daughters, Mona and Melody, have made prearrangements of the time to come to the end of life’s journeys. For decades we have thought in terms of burial in the Henry burial plot in Sandy Ridge Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. Sue pointed out a few years ago that we should reconsider since it is unlikely that many family members would make their way to East Tennessee. Our choice was Beulah Church Cemetery about four minutes from our home in Lynchburg, Virginia. A dear friend from our Kerby Knob Church (Kentucky) days helped design our marker some years ago and planned to install it in Tennessee. Using that design, the marker is now in place for all to see—our names, our birthdates, the names of our children (the three Ms—Mona, Mark, and Melody), the dates of our passing, sets of praying hands, AND two scriptures. One side honors our children—“Behold, children are a inheritance from the Lord” (Psalm 127:3) and the other side honors our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ—“Looking un to Jesus the Author [Originator] and Finisher [Perfecter] of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). This is our final witness. May every blog that I write in 2024 cause us to CONSIDER JESUS.
Sue (who will be 86 on February 9) and I (now living my 89th year of life) considered our witness after our passages to Heaven. We, with the help of our daughters, Mona and Melody, have made prearrangements of the time to come to the end of life’s journeys. For decades we have thought in terms of burial in the Henry burial plot in Sandy Ridge Cemetery, Jefferson County, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains. Sue pointed out a few years ago that we should reconsider since it is unlikely that many family members would make their way to East Tennessee. Our choice was Beulah Church Cemetery about four minutes from our home in Lynchburg, Virginia. A dear friend from our Kerby Knob Church (Kentucky) days helped design our marker some years ago and planned to install it in Tennessee. Using that design, the marker is now in place for all to see—our names, our birthdates, the names of our children (the three Ms—Mona, Mark, and Melody), the dates of our passing, sets of praying hands, AND two scriptures. One side honors our children—“Behold, children are a inheritance from the Lord” (Psalm 127:3) and the other side honors our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ—“Looking un to Jesus the Author [Originator] and Finisher [Perfecter] of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). This is our final witness. May every blog that I write in 2024 cause us to CONSIDER JESUS.
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