ugh!!!!! my apologies Mr Banks, if there was something my post never intended to sound it was in any way hot headed. ... passionate maybe ) I really believe what I wrote in my last mail.
I truly do what I do to honour and worship the Lord and for no other reason. I do it because I am in a personal relationship with Him. He's not someone or something out there. For me he's right inside me, we talk to each other through His Word, and I have a great excitement inside about meeting Him face to face oneday. I look forward to the day when I can worship Him and bow down before Him. Because I know He died for me, to enable me to know I will spend eternity with Him,
I can't wait to give Him praise and honour. I grew up in a situation so unlike the one I am in now. I knew I was a sinner, I had no assurance that I would even exist after my life on this earth finished, I lived with an inner knowledge, that no matter what I did, or how hard I tried, I couldn't stop fearing that something was wrong with me. I was scared of death, and used to have night mares at night dreaming of what I might be like after death.
Then I met God... and my life and my inner self has changed forever. Death for me is the beginning of an eternity with Him. I wish everyone on this earth could have that same assurance. The peace to live during this lifetime knowing I'm totally okay with God and that He loves ME!! It's the most precious way to live on this earth and now I have not only that experience for now whilst I am alive, I have it for eternity. It's inexpressible joy and that joy alone was the basis of my post.