Do you remember when Mother put something on your plate you didn't like, maybe spinach or beets?

She would say, "Just take a taste. It's good for you."

In your opinion a hamburger and french fries topped off with a candy bar were much better for you.

Now you are getting chest pains when you walk uphill and you are wondering if Mother had something there.

It's like that with the Lord. If you have never known the Lord, why don't you taste and see if the Lord is good? If you want purpose in life, if you want to know there is someone there to help you when you're surrounded with dread, if you want to have a good feeling about where you are going when you die, then get with the Lord.

Let me tell you from experience that when you are in an ambulance traveling Code 3, oxygen mask on your face, wondering if you will see your family again, it's a marvelous feeling to know the Lord has everything under control. When they slide you under the big camera and start the probe up an artery, it's a happy thought that the next minute you might hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant."

The Bible says we are in bondage throughout our life because of the fear of death. When you know Jesus the hope of dying is like that of a ten-year-old the night before Christmas, or the thought that summer vacation is at hand.

Is that the way it is with you? If not, it can be. Look up to Jesus right now. Taste and see that the Lord is good. I have found Him so for fifty-two years and I have no reason to lie to you.

Happy is the individual who trusts the Lord. We see the world situation today. It doesn't look good for Israel. We have some good friends there and I know our Arab brothers and sisters do also.

Who knows what is going on in the secret chambers of Russia, China, Cuba, and other places. What is tomorrow going to bring? Will our children and grandchildren survive drugs, AIDS, gangs; and if they do, what will they be facing ten years from now? A world gone crazy with lust, greed, and violence?

There is a way out of this. I found it when I was nineteen. It works. We do what good we can in the world but our hope is in the next age. I know it's real. People disappear when they die. Their body is with us but they themselves are somewhere else. We will see them all again, not as wraiths but as flesh and bone people.

Life is like the old Mission Impossible television series. Events are fabricated to get people to do things they would not do ordinarily. Their real environment remains unchanged but a simulated environment causes them to react in revealing ways. If our eyes were open we would see we've been fooled as to where we are and what really is taking place.

Once the truth is out the play acting is over. The "dead" actors get up and go out for dinner.

Some day the play will be over. What kind of truth came out of you? You will be amazed that you always have been in the midst of a multitude of spirits and people observing your reactions.

No one has really gone anywhere. They are in various holding areas waiting for the great Day of Judgment.

That which is spoken in secret shall be proclaimed on the housetops. Nobody will ever know what you have done in secret except the whole universe.

Put your trust in Jesus and He will make sure that when the program director says "Cut!" and everyone comes back to life you will be proud of yourself and of Jesus.

Mother really does know what she is talking about!