Tomorrow: What does it hold?

 Praise the LORD!!!

   Greetings to my bothers and sisters in CHRIST, for I presume that the bulk of those whom read my blog are Christians, I pray the LORD is blessing you this day. Then again, If you're reading this, HE has already blessed you with another day of life!

   I've not been writing very much lately, which any that have followed me for awhile can easily note. The plain and simple reason for this is that I've not been led to! I'm one that goes day to day, no planning things, but going on that which the LORD leads me to. You may wonder 'how I know it's the LORD's leading and not my own or the other guy's.' For one, I'm not a new Christian and one far from under feed on scripture. It has been over fifteen years now that I've walked with the LORD as my guiding influence in life. Most of this time has been spent in consuming mass quantities of scripture and scripture based reading. Along with many hours in deep meditation on the WORD and hours upon hours of prayer and devotionals.

   You may say you've done the same and many of you may have, but it truly isn't this that has drawn me so close to the LORD that I can distinguish of HIS gentile voice, above the roar of life. When the LORD broke the man that I used to be, HE broke me completely. I was crushed beyond all recognition. Those that had known me prior couldn't recognize the man that looked like me before them, but was a totally different person in word and actions. Though I'd been witness to many a movement of GOD within my early life, I'd bulked completely before HIS offerings until that day. When I did have that drastic change of heart, it was complete and without a doubt heart felt. I began to change in such a way that I personally didn't even realize it while it was happening. All these changes, weren't of my own hands, but it was the LORD HIMSELF, through the power of the HOLY SPIRIT altering every fiber of that which was.

   I began to do things that were totally outside of those I'd ever heard preached or had read in books throughout my life.(If you've not read my book "Out of the LIGHT," maybe you should, it gives many more details) Even the very books I was currently reading, were being given to me for understanding of 'deeper truths' that that which they contained. Maybe the quickest way to state this, would be that I'd totally allowed the HOLY SPIRIT to come in and set up shop within me and was taking every detail that HE led me to, to heart and began to feed on it like a ravenous wolf. I couldn't get enough, but was only consuming that which came from HIS hand and to the point to which I was led to read. For there were books that I began and didn't finish or even those that I started within and only read portions of. All these, can't even begin to be grouped together. For some were Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Mormon, Seventh Day Adventist and even Jehovah Witness. Almost any denomination, cult or false religious system you can think of I've most likely read something by them.

   All of this, what does it mean or lead me to? I don't know! But just like the title of this article, only GOD truly knows what tomorrow holds and what I'll be doing for HIM. That is one thing for sure, what I will be doing, no matter where or what it is, it will be for the LORD's glory and HIS alone!!!


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GOD bless and good day,

Rev. Marshall Barth

Vine of CHRIST Ministries