transition

Tuesday December 11^th, Philippians 1: 5 There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.  The day of the Lord’s appearing will come to each of us.  It is that day when we transition from this life to the next.  Up until that day, the work goes on.  The refining of who you are as a child of God and the roadwork into the hearts and minds of others as an ambassador for God’s love and grace continues.  If we are really into living as a child of God, full of hope, full of passion, full of caring and confident in forgiveness and status as a called and redeemed child of God, it will seem like such a natural transition that we will hardly notice.  If we are filled with anxiety, fear, hopelessness in the midst of normal doubt, the transition will happen none the less, perhaps just not so smooth.  Either way, the path has already been prepared, that is the meaning of the cross, that is the act of grace.  Our choice is how to live on this side of the transition.