Personal Focus!

Matthew 27: 52 - 53

⁵² The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 

⁵³ and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

You might think this is a little morbid, but I have a sort of an infatuation with cemeteries.

I like to walk in them and look at dates and the names of people.

After church yesterday I went to a few cemeteries. Don’t ask me why, but I just went, and I walked and I prayed.

I traveled to Bell Cemetery...Oak Hill Cemetery, and the Winneconne Cemetery, just to name a few.

As I walked, there were names I instantly recognized, and many I have officiated funerals for.

H. Bernece (Schmude) Meyer, Vince Heath, Crystal Doering (Tschetter), Susie Wentzel, Rick Kichefski, Ralph Luedtke, Marian Halverson, and Mike & Enid Zimmerman.

There were others, but I often wonder what those cemeteries are going to look like when the rapture comes.

According to God’s Word, the dead in Christ are going to rise first.

A friend of mine called me on Saturday, and left me a phone message... “The rapture just happened buddy, and I’m with Jesus, but I don’t see you here?!?”

What each of these people have in common that I mentioned above, is that they have each already gazed into the eyes of Jesus.

Some of them have been invited into God’s great Kingdom forever, and others might have missed the Wedding Feast all together.

That’s a Wedding reception I never want to miss!

I even drove by my own cemetery plots on Saturday night with my wife and some friends.

My focus is not where they will bury my dead, stinking body, but where I’m going to spend my time forever, and Whom I’m going spend it with.

As you begin this new day, where is your personal focus?