ARE YOU READY?
ARE YOU READY for anything? It is not good to continue to make excuses for yourself as to why you are putting off what you know you need to do or say. Why are you measuring life according to what makes you happy? Do not keep telling yourself once things change you will be happy. You will be happy when you decide to be thankful no matter what.
Do you realize that what you do today is preparing you for tomorrow? Most people do not keep that thought in mind. It is inconvenient to think that this very moment matters so much. If you did value the present you might act differently. Why do we treat time like it is something we have too much of and need to get rid of it?
Instead of waiting for tradgedy to strike or some national disaster to hit nearby, or new years eve to come around...to make some evaluations and come to grips with what is going on inside your heart. Why not do that daily? Why not search the Word of God and ask God to reveal to you what needs to change in you so that you will be ready for anything that comes? "Watch and Pray..." Mark 13:33 If we fail to watch and pray we will fall into temptation. It is that simple.
Serious temptation. Or maybe the tempation to continue doing what we want. Living to please ourselves. There are all kinds of temptation, even ones we do not recognize as temptation. We do not recognize temptation for what it is, because we have welcomed compromise and become friends with the enemies of God. When we approve of what we do and do not even so much as give thought to what is pleasing in God's sight...then we have ceased to obey His word (putting it behind our back), and have become our own lord. Oh how we need to be ready at any moment to give an account for the hope that we have, for the life that we have lived, for how we spend our time and money and affections.
Do you realize that what you do today is preparing you for tomorrow? Most people do not keep that thought in mind. It is inconvenient to think that this very moment matters so much. If you did value the present you might act differently. Why do we treat time like it is something we have too much of and need to get rid of it?
Instead of waiting for tradgedy to strike or some national disaster to hit nearby, or new years eve to come around...to make some evaluations and come to grips with what is going on inside your heart. Why not do that daily? Why not search the Word of God and ask God to reveal to you what needs to change in you so that you will be ready for anything that comes? "Watch and Pray..." Mark 13:33 If we fail to watch and pray we will fall into temptation. It is that simple.
Serious temptation. Or maybe the tempation to continue doing what we want. Living to please ourselves. There are all kinds of temptation, even ones we do not recognize as temptation. We do not recognize temptation for what it is, because we have welcomed compromise and become friends with the enemies of God. When we approve of what we do and do not even so much as give thought to what is pleasing in God's sight...then we have ceased to obey His word (putting it behind our back), and have become our own lord. Oh how we need to be ready at any moment to give an account for the hope that we have, for the life that we have lived, for how we spend our time and money and affections.
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