2017 August « Reviews and Views

Men of Christ

Men of Christ stop your dreaming!
Can’t you see their weapons gleaming?
See their warrior pennants streaming
To this battlefield!

Men of Christ stand you steady.
It cannot ever be said of you
For the battle, you were not ready.
Christians never yield!

From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at Gospel’s call
The mighty force surrounding.

Men of Christ on to glory
This will ever be your story.
Keep these fighting words before you
Christians will not yield!

The original lyrics were “Men of Harlech” or “The March of the Men of Harlech” probably written and used as early as 1461 in Britain. It is important for Welsh national culture and gained international recognition when it was featured in the 1941 movie How Green Was My Valley and the 1964 film Zulu. You can go to any search engine and find the audio to this song. Here I’m using it to promote the idea that we are in spiritual warfare and need to pay attention to the times we are living in.

August 31, 2017 Posted by Bill Wyler | Poem, Religion | Leave a comment

Death is the saints’ gateway to Heaven

Death should be viewed as the time for going home. It is the gateway to having our full union with Christ. At that moment, we join a host of elected souls, ordained to forever experience a joy without bounds. The destiny of our dearly departed Christian brothers and sisters, family and friends, is so high that we have no words and no language to fully describe it.

So hold your friends and family lovingly but be ready to yield them to Jesus. Don’t hold them back from the One to whom they belong. When they are sick, fast and pray for their recovery. But when they depart and cross over to Jesus, do as David did, who washed his face and ate and drank. You will go to them one day; they cannot return to you. Comfort one another with the thought of their joy in Christ and Christ’s joy in them and the Father’s joy in Christ and in them.

Let no gloom surround and take hold of you. Dying is but going home. For there is no dying for the saints. Soon, we shall know more about Heaven than all the Christian scholars can tell us! Heaven is the place of great union with Christ and reunion with redeemed loved ones.

Let us remember what the apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:13-14; “One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

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