WORE OUT AGAIN.

I know.  I know.  I have posted the picture

of this pump before - about four years ago. 

But it is wore out again.

This pump is at Fort Rock Family Camp.

I try to donate time and effort there when

I can,  And the camp director told me that

when I come next week I will need to repair

the poor old pump again.

When they have the family camps - that means

daddy, mother and all the kids -  the little kids

in particular just love to pump that old pump

and watch the water go into the horse trough.

I don't know how many times I have had to

repair the poor old pump.  And of course the

kids don't mind dropping rocks, sand, dirt,

sticks or what ever in the pump.  Maybe that

is fun too.

If I were as young as you are these thoughts

would not go through my mind.  But, at my

age and as many times as I have been to the

doctor or in the hospital, and I am still not

working at full capacity,  I begin to feel like

that poor old pump.

A person that is not in a personal relationship

with God, i.e., Jesus Christ had better hold on

to this earthly life as long as possible.  Because

after that is pure agony.

But those of us who are in a relationship with

God look at it a little differently.

"While we live in these earthly bodies,

we groan and sigh, but it's not that

we want to die and get rid of these

bodies that cloth us.  Rather, we want

to put on our new bodies so that these

dying bodies will be swallowed up by

life."

( 2 Corinthians 5:4 NLT)

Yes, God has promised that those who are

in a personal relationship with him when

they die will be given new heavenly bodies.

No more doctors, nurses, medicines or 

hospitals.

PRAISE GOD.