{"id":2054,"date":"2011-08-15T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2011-08-15T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:33:28","slug":"bam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/bam\/","title":{"rendered":"BAM!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Corinthians 15:51-52<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed\u2014 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week I was walking down to the exercise room for my daily workout. It was shortly after 5:00 a.m. and all was quiet except for the sound from the freeway about a mile away. The sound from traffic on the freeway was a steady hum until I heard a huge, BAM!! I immediately knew what had happened.<\/p>\n

Several years ago Joyce and I were traveling to Idaho. We were traveling through a canyon whose walls rose high on each side.\u00a0 We were just passing an 18 wheeler when there was a huge BAM! As I looked in the rear view mirror I could see shreds of the truck\u2019s tire that had exploded. Wow! I was thankful that we had made it past the truck before the tire had exploded.<\/p>\n

As I walked on toward the clubhouse in the early morning hours I began to think about how quickly things happen. There is no way of knowing when a tire will explode or other accidents will occur. In the same way we have no idea when the Lord will call us home.<\/p>\n

I was concluding a funeral service last year. As I was closing my remarks I challenged the congregation to be prepared to meet the Lord at any time. I added that we never know when the Lord will call. Unexpectedly someone\u2019s cell phone rang. It gave me a perfect illustration of how suddenly we may be ushered into the Lord\u2019s presence. We must be ready when He calls.<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/strong>
\n(360) 570-0074<\/p>\n

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1 Corinthians 15:51-52 \u201cListen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed\u2014 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.\u201d Last week I was walking down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}