Gina McCray (8 Jan 2011)
"A must read for all Doves! Be encouraged!"
I think all Doves will appreciate this!
You
are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to
see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've
ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A
choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but you want to know. So
you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you
aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car
doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing
out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the
street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds
and what they see, and what you see, has never before been
seen.
As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes
of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There
are no shadows. None.
From every hue ever seen
and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet
of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until
they occupy every square inch of the sky.
North. South. East. West.
Thousands
of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the
trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy,
holy.. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four
silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in
worship.
Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels
turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is...Jesus.
Through
waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is
atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He
opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega."
The
angels bow their heads... The elders remove their crowns... And before
you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: Nothing
else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports...sales meetings
and football games. Nothing is newsworthy. All that mattered, matters
no more. For Christ has come.