“Karen’s Notes!

Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

                                                          Selected Notes

Volume 4  Number 5 “Brief Sentences that are Packed and Personal”

February 3, 2021

We had a wonderful marriage. Please don’t think for a moment that I am pretending that we had a perfect marriage. We certainly did not. But I can tell you this. Rather than allowing the differences of our personalities to be an annoyance, Karen and I celebrated them. In fact, we often laughed with each other about these matters. One of the things that always amused us was how many words I have and how few she had. She was not given to chatter. Those who know and love her can testify that she didn’t talk a lot and tended to write even fewer words. But when she wrote something in her journal from her Bible study, I always knew that this was special.

Through a very rough period of time in her life, Karen wrote with conviction and purpose. As she grew sicker and sicker, her writing became less and less. Come with me to a very powerful and pointed two sentences Karen managed to write. Think of His Word with me, won’t you?

Karen wrote: Comfort. He never changes. He is always there! “Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work” (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17).

Karen continued writing: We can depend on Him to keep His promises to us. Because of that, start each new day looking for the fulfillment of His promise in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 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.” It may be today.

 Michael’s observation: I greatly miss that little lady of few words. The comfort of His promises and the assurance of His coming for us in the Rapture are wonderful blessings. It is not about religion. It is all about relationship. Do you know Him as your personal Savior? Are you looking for Him each day?