My Dad’s younger and only brother died today….
He was killed in a Motorcycle wreck….
He was 81 and still ” riding”   ~  yep, that would be ~  Uncle John….

He was just a really neat Uncle to me …..
He was the President of the Ford Proving Grounds in Arizona…
and we would go out there…
he would take us on a “test drive”…on the tracks….
we were going over 100  mph and he took his hands off the wheel !
the centrifugal force kept is “on the track”….
Mom was screaming….I was loving life….

He took us on a strip of where they tested shocks…
Cigarettes were flying out of the ash tray….
He would be flying and ask us if we wanted to go on the strip…
Where they tested the breaks…
“What do you think Marilyn said ?”  ….. we didn’t !

Or asked us if we wanted to to through two brick walls…
Going 100 mph…. where they ~ cool the cars down… we didn’t !

He took me on a road….out in the desert…..
I over his shoulder… and we were going over 90 mph..
on his motorcycle.!!!!!…..
Then he put came to a stop and my helmet literally… hit ~ his…
I just laughed and laughed….on that RIDE….

He let us use their “cabin on a lake”  in Michigan…
He gave me the keys to their ” speed boat ” ….
With no second guesses ~ I thought I would ruin it…
but once I drove it….you got it….it was amazing…

Gabe &  Tug learned to swim that summer…
To past the test they had to swim to Uncle John’s boat !
( Kid Rocks’ parents now own that cabin !)

He lived in Argentina….my brother Jim got to go there and
spend time with him….I just thought that was so neat….

He tried to get Rock into Ford , in Lima…but Rock had HBP.
Honda hired him…and so the talks between Rock and Uncle John…
Would go on….What Ford was doing…
What Honda was doing….but it was neat too !

He brought back our Uncle Boogies gun to Rock and I…
It is hanging in our house…..a relic !

Gabe & Tug…would love to see ” what car ~ Ford had him driving”
when we would pull into Mom and Dads’ …..
” ahhh man…”

He lived in Sedona , Arizona…where the RED ROCKS are..
a beautiful back yard, of bird feeders…Red Rocks.. and sunsets…

Most of all, it was just how he talked to me….
It was how he would listen to me….
It was how he loved Nascar, racing…motorcycles…and speed…..

It was his girls…Angie, Claire and Jane…..
My cousins and how much FUN we had growing up…
Far in distance….but just close.

I got my temps for a Motorcycle
I love to be in our boat
I love our cabin….and one time I told him…
” you started it…smile”

I am so glad this past summer ….we took him to our cabin…
and he just loved it….again, it was that connection….

It was listening to Dad and him, tell of their childhood…
The different angles of each story…..

Lately…he took an amazing  motorcycle ride…..with his friends…
I forget…but like up to the North West….and back…
I just thought….” you have got to be kidding me…”
but then,  that was ” UNCLE JOHN”…

He was Uncle John…and now he has seen JESUS….

He owned a ” Gold Wing motorcycle” ….
Now he is on streets of gold.
Thank YOU JESUS…for Uncle John….
and his salvation !

Eph. 1: 9 + 10 ,
“And He made known to us the MYSTERY of HIS WILL
according to HIS good pleasure,
which HE purposed in Christ,
10.  to be ~ PUT INTO EFFECT……..
when the TIMES….
will have reached their fulfillment -
to bring ALL THINGS…
IN HEAVEN and
ON EARTH……together ~
UNDER ONE HEAD ~ JESUS CHRIST.”

1.  What are we doing right now for the LORD ?
2.  What are we working on….trying to really make happen ~ spiritually ?
3.  Can you see the spiritual ~  really working in it ?
4.  Or is it in the ” Hampster Wheel” stage ?  ( your efforts ?)

a.  His mystery made known to us…..
God letting us know…..through HIS WISDOM + UNDERSTANDING….
Spiritual outcome…relies solely on Spiritual wisdom + understanding…..
b. According to His good pleasure….
Ever asked someone what they wanted, then manipulated the situation to
only get what YOU wanted ?    HIS …HIS…good pleasure.
What pleases God with what we are doing ?
not….
What is OUR DESIRE, in our lives….. w/ that, back to the ” Hampster Wheel”

c. Which HE purposed IN CHRIST………..in who ?  ( again, not us….not us )

d. TO BE PUT IN EFFECT….
TO BE PUT IN EFFECT…..by God…..

I envision….someone being stuck…..in the mud…..
a two wheel drive truck….its’ tires just a spinning and spinning….
and along comes a 4 WHEEL DRIVE TRUCK…..” want me to help ?”
Locked in God……..
Locked in LOW 4 WHEEL DRIVE…….no task.  seriously.

If we are truly wanting the pleasure of the LORD , in what we are doing
If we are truly walking in HIS WISDOM, HIS UNDERSTANDING…
asking, reading, praying for HIS guidance in what we are doing…seriously…

ARE WE ?

Then :  to BRING ALL things IN HEAVEN  ( think of all that is in Heaven )
and
on earth

( what HIS will is , in what we are doing…lead by HIS wisdom/Understanding )

all things~ in Heaven ~ on earth ~  UNDER ONE HEAD = JESUS CHRIST.

Started with JESUS
Worked with JESUS in the midst
Outcome is only ONE = JESUS

Bring the bushel baskets….because their is going to be FRUIT….
There has to be FRUIT…….why ?      only One.

Is there something right now…. that just won’t ~ “GET OFF YOUR BACK”…
It has been there, it is pressing you down…..

Things are trying to CRUSH you….you feel the pressure of it all.
In fact it may be even oppressing you…..
Your movement is not free…
Your mind is not free….
The peace of God, is just not in you…to the fullest……
You know it is trying to HINDER your life in the LORD…

Isaiah 14: 25 b
” His yoke will be taken FROM my people
and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26.  This is the plan DETERMINED for the whole world;
THIS IS THE HAND stretched out over all the nations.
27.  FOR THE LORD ALMIGHTY has purposed,
and who, who, who can THWART HIM ?”
HIS HAND…….is stretched out, and WHO CAN
turn it back.”

Picture the hand of the LORD stretched over you today.
Picture the hand of the LORD stretched over your home, your family, today.

Then HE takes HIS hand and lifts off ,  the burden….the yoke….
It is taken off……by HIM…..who can turn it back.

Who can put it back on…..

vs. 32
” the LORD has established Zion,
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”

Someone needs refuge today.
Someone needs the yoke taken off today….
Somone needs to walk in peace today….

Let the redeemed say it is so…
He is LORD,  He is taking this right now off of ME.
His hand is stretched out over ME.
And no one, not satan, not others, not MYSELF…will
put that yoke back upon me.

I choose, to walk from here on in peace…knowing :
HE IS MY LORD
HE IS MY GOD
HIS HAND IS OVER THIS SITUATION….

( oppression in this area is coming to push you down ..
if the arm of God is OVER  YOU….it can not push you down
any longer, it can NOT go through the ARM OF GOD …
in the name of JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, amen )