TIME IN ONE LINE

Time is a gift. The culture talk of the day is about time and who has the right to give and take time from a person before their birth. Time will end but eternity will not.  A person who does not submit to Christ at this time will be separated from God for eternity in hell.  Time and the choices in time matter.  Yet, with all the significance of time it amazes me how much time is often summed up in one line in scripture. Hundreds of years of life, sufferings, joys, victories, and defeats all covered with a passing sentence. This summation of time in scripture could encourage or discourage you.  One day all of your life will be summed up in a sentence and truthfully much of it already is, "They worked there for 27 years" or "They lived there for 40 years."  A statement is made and time moves on and no word of all the burdens or blessings of those years are mentioned.  Ecclesiastes addresses this reality.  Why does God often talk of years of time in just one line? I can think of at least two reasons.  Time is God's to use.  "...What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." (James 4:14-17) Second, eternity is where God wants us to look.  So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.  For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:16-18). Psalm 31 reminds us that our times are in God's hand. Take that truth as a reminder to use your time for God's glory not for your personal gain.  You have one line of time, how will you use it?  HOPE IN GOD

Classic Verses We Always Need to Consider


"If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! So whatever you wish that others would do to you do also to them." Matthew 7:11-12  Jack Miller commenting on these verses said, "What does God do when we ask, seek, and knock?  What does he do when we go to him with empty hands, not knowing what to do next, with a clear view of our need and sinfulness? God gives us good things! One good thing he gives us is a spirit of love for others. Put yourself in another's place, Jesus tells us. Go to God, asking in faith for him to do what you can't in the lives of others, and then go to others with love.  How can you pray effectively unless your prayer is carried to heaven on the two wings of faith and love?  I have never seen a bird fly with just one wing, have you? Have you asked the Holy Spirit to give you the wings of faith and love?  Ask for a heart surrendered to God, a heart of faith that says, 'Your will be done. I want your way. convict me of sin, and fill me with love.' Then you will see clearly how to love others.  He will give you the power to love and love and love." HOPE IN GOD



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