Welcome to the Final Chapter of your Story...

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This is a place of Hope.

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Each older woman is adjusting to the unique changes and challenges old age has brought her.

This is where we become aware of the hope we find in Christ as we place our confident trust in the Person and promises of God, realizing this isn't the final chapter of our story

What is the final chapter of our story?

The final chapter of our story as Christians, is one of victory, glory, and eternity with God, in heaven. It is a chapter of Light, Life and no more tears ever again. The final chapter of our story will never, ever end. We will be with Jesus forever. The brokenness we have experienced here on earth will be done with. Our personal brokenness as well as the broken systems that are all around us. They will be finished. The only thing left will be God and all His attributes.

But for some, their final chapter will not be as hopeful. Hell will be a place where God's attributes will be completely absent. Imagine how awful. There will be no fun parties. There will be no fun, no relationships that are fulfilling. There will be no light. There will be nothing positive or uplifting...but I'm getting way ahead of myself. That is another blog for another day.

Heaven is a free gift. It can't be earned.

The wonderful thing about heaven is that it is a free gift given and paid for, for anyone who will believe and accept it. Amazingly, there are many who don't want it. It has nothing to do with wealth or working hard to earn your way. The only way we can receive the gift of heaven and a relationship with God is to acknowledge our sin and desperate need for God. In other words, realizing how much we don't deserve it.

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What God's Word says:

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked,

following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—  among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches

of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Galatians 2:1-10 ESV