Alone With God

Alone with God. 

Alone without any Christian friends, without any one to teach, and without any books sat John on the island.

But John was not alone, for God was with him.  

On the Lord’s Day, John was thinking, and thinking, and thinking about the message of Jesus.  He fell into a trance in the power of the Holy Spirit and heard a loud voice behind him like the sound of a trumpet saying “I am alpha and omega, the first and the last. What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches”. 

John saw visions of the throne of God, seals and trumpets, beasts and angels. He saw pictures of the last days, the second coming of Christ: judgement day, a new heaven and a new earth. 

How happy John was because Patmos was not a prison to him, but the very gates of heaven.  

The story teaches that God will talk to us if we are at home, in the church, or on some lonely island.

-Sister Shirley Bailey

Beginners Class Teacher

Greater Shiloh Baptist Church