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August 30, 2006
Well hello reader,
Thank you for taking time to
stop by this page, which means you, must have a little interest in my life and
what is going on with me. I thank you for that interest. I am
staying busy doing what I have been doing for over a year now. Going to
different churches in the area and preaching the gospel, filling in for some
churches that do not have a pastor at the present time, and keeping very busy at
that! And I am starting to really like it and be quite content with it.
O I still think I would much rather have a church of my own, but the good
Lord is using me in this way right now, and I do not for a moment think that
what I am doing is for not. NO not at all! So all is well.
I must also say that I am
enjoying this cooler weather! IT feels much like fall out write now.
Yesterday I spent the biggest part of the day sitting out side reading a
book. Well actually I listened to it on tape, but you who know me know
what I mean. It was a pretty good story but I was pretty convicted that I
spent the biggest part of the day on it when I could have been doing something a
little more honoring and glorifying to the Lord. So the good Lord, (I call
Him good for indeed He is very good) you see we are close. Thus, I spoke
with Him and asked for mercy pardon and forgiveness, for I have learned it pays
to pay attention to conviction. And the Lord restored me quickly.
That is one of the things I so deeply love about my Lord. He
restores me before I even fall really. My how gracious He is to me who was
once a sinner, but now am made free by the Son, who shed His blood for me.
And then rose again and now reigns with the Father on High, preparing a
place that I shall go to when I die. Or when He returns for the church,
which ever comes first. Anyhow, He has sure been good to me.
Why just last night I was
standing out side and the silence was speaking loud if you know what I mean.
It was one of those moments when I stood out in the yard in awe. I
wouldn’t know I am blind as I felt the freshness of the air, and thought of
the beauty of my Lord. I just stood there thanking Him for grace and
thinking about His life He has put into me. Thinking on Him. You see
I have an addiction or two and one of them a very safe one. I can’t keep
my mind off from the Lord very long. I call it a safe one cause getting
close to Jesus is always safe, though it may cost me much in the flesh.
Well I just stood there in the silence praying and praising the Lord.
Thinking of Him and how I look forward to seeing Him in His fullness soon,
and yet, how happy I am in my Lord as I serve and enjoy a relationship with Him
this side of Heaven through The Holy spirit. Then my brother’s dog
started to bark and sort of ruined the mood. I say sort of because I was
still thinking of God and it did not affect my soul at all. But, it did
sort of spoil the sweet silence of the evening, and then I got to thinking of
the skunks that have been hanging around our house at night here lately and
decided to go in.
Well that’s my update for
now I am doing well. Still dreaming once and a while about a few things I
have not, but also by the Lord’s grace, I have been mindful of all I do have
and that I am rich in Jesus… Saw the little lady I use to date here
while back and of course that made me miss her some, but as I said, life is good
and the Lord has dealt with me very graciously. O how I love Him so.
How bout you do you love Him like that? You should, you can’t
understand unless you are there or have been there but there is just something
so grand about loving Him like that. Well you can always drop an email in
the inbox if you have any comments, or simply wish to tell me you read, I would
enjoy hearing from you. It is rotramem@centurytel.net,
or you may send it to Charity
and my site and I will receive it there as well placeoffreedom@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
Mark D Rotramel