By and By we will praise Him!!!

 Bloggers, when I think of my personal troubles and problems, I feel sometimes like I am the Lone Ranger. I am sure that many people on this earth at one point or another feel the same way when things are not going our way. Remember the song sung by Mick Jagger and the Rolling stones that said, "You can't always get what you want?" Well, life is exactly like that. And then again, many people who are born incapacitated whether mentally or physically, may have never got what they wanted. They lived and died without ever getting what they wanted on this side of Eternity. I don't know what those people ever suffered, but in myself consumed pity at times, I feel like nobody has ever suffered like I have. Sometimes those emotions may be justified in some cases for that moment at that time, however, our suffering is miniscule compared to some others that we know about or have read about. A case in point, I attend the Audie L. Murphy V.A. Hospital in San Antonio, Texas and have been since 1978. And I have seen young men and women, service people, in way more permanent disability than all my problems put together. And I at least have recourse to rebound in my ability at resilience to keep going on my own two legs and feet, and body intact, but those guys who are mentally and physically irreparable don't have that luxury. They are stuck in a vegetated state and there is nothing they can do about it. Their moments of being on top of the Mountain and raising their arms and hands to heaven at sunrise, if they ever had one, may have been few or none at all. And for them now, there are no such moments for mountain top experiences. Now, it's only moments of being in the deepest and lowest parts of the Valley. And as I was saying, in a race, we don't always finish well, sometimes we make a wreck of our Faith and Life because we are ill-prepared and ill-disciplined. And as for the invalids who were born that way, there race is already Won. How can they be accountable for sins. Then I read about the hardships of the Bible Characters like the Prophets of God and the Apostles and of Jesus Christ Himself. Man, think about a Mountain experience emotion that Jesus had. He is God and was God when He came to earth as a man to sacrifice His life for ours. He was Sinless in a Pure and Holy Heaven..., The Highest and Tallest Snowcapped Mountain Known only to Him and His Holy Angels. Yet, He came down from His Majestic Throne to the lowest Valley here on earth to die for me and you just to offer us Eternal Life and Salvation with Him. Think about that lowest Valley experience that He had! So, no one can say that Jesus doesn't know or care anything about our infirmities. Just think also of the Apostle Paul, oh what a Journey of Misery and Troubles that man went through. I read, I read a lot. I love history with a passion, especially ancient history. And it is history knowledge that puts all these characters suffering into context and perspective for me. Because when I feel that I should always have my way or that I should always win at whatever I am contending, I have to accept that I will not win every time to bat. And as a result, I will lose battles now and then regardless whether The Ark of the Covenant is with me or not. There are times that humility is demanded and or expected, and I have to come down from my throne of triumphant sticks to the deepest parts of the Valley and there humble myself to God on bended knees and ask for forgiveness for my selfish ways. And of course I keep forgetting that in all wars, it means that it is a constant effort, and that the enemies will always keep coming against us. It is a non-stop barrage of assaults all throughout life. And like I said in my last Blog, there will be casualties like deaths of family, friends, and things that we love like our trees and plants, and pets in the battles, regardless the type of battles. But that should not cause us to blame God for any culpability in our losses. Everything has a reason and purpose in life. Sometimes we will feel emotionally overwhelmed by our troubles and problems but never blame God for our losses nor charge Him without Cause. So, when I don't get my way from God, I have to always look back at what those earlier people I mentioned had to undergo and underwent, and look at the Bible Characters especially, and recall that this Christian Journey is not an easy one. It was never meant to be that way and never will be easy. Personally, I found out that as a Christian gets closer to the Base of God's Mountain Top..., The Finish Line, the Trials and Tribulations and the Devils attacks on us will get the worse. Let's hope that after we have passed so many test..., not to show fear of Death in the end. Remember, that in my dreams as I made it to the Base of God's Mountain, (Several Times in separate dreams) I was never alone because Angels in human form were with me and at the end of the Journey. And one Angel Drove me all the way there with devils chasing after us until the final Black Wolf was Killed before we reached the Base!!! And if you are serious about your service to God and your Love for Him is Real, you will make it too. And do you know that this morning as I was waking up from today's dream, I heard a beautiful female's Voice using fluent English over my head in the sky singing this phrase only, "By and By we will Praise Him!" Do you see, that from our conversion to Christ Jesus unto the Finish Line, we should Praise Him quickly day by day right now until we arrive and then there..., We will Praise God throughout Eternity quickly every instant that we can. And not only is this Great Mountain of God our Safety over there, but so is The Church right here on Earth.                                   Respectfully,                                                                                                                                        Ruben N. Gutierrez