Hello Everyone ...

Here we are at the doorstep of Resurrection Time and Activies for many of God's people, and already we have entered into another season called "SPRING."

With that thought in mind I am reminded of the passage of Scripture that says, "For all flesh is as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away." (1 Peter 1:24)

If we are only thinking in the temporal, we as believers are deeply in trouble.

Hebrews 9:27 says "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: ..."

You and I as believers in Christ will face our BEMA [Judgment Seat of Christ] and must give account for our deeds (2 Corinthians 5:10) which may not be rewarding if indeed our eyes are only focus on what our flesh can or cannot accomplish.

But if we are thinking eternally ["... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12:2)], praise the Lord because our "redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 21:28)

I trust you are living in the light of our Saviour's return today (Titus 2:12-14) and that as believers in Christ, you'll not be caught with your hands in the cookie jar of sin and thus to be "ashamed before him at his coming" (1 John 2:28) but that your deeds or "those things" (2 John 8) or "all that we and you have labored for" (2 John 8, AMP) will be that which can receive a "full reward" or "a perfect reward [in full]." (2 John 8, KJV and AMP respectively)

If you know not Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." (Acts 16:31)

The verse that precedes 1 Peter 1:24 says, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." I trust that you are born again by the living word of God, and that indeed you are living in the light of His return.

That makes each and everyday a special day for it may be your last day to be living on this side of eternity, and as Ephesians 5:15-16 says, we ought to be walking circumspectly (exactly, accurately, diligently or "purposefully and worthily and accurately", AMP), not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."

God also says of your life,

10 "The length of our days is seventy years-
or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of your anger?
For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

12 Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Believer, may you and I live each day as we are living in the realm of eternity and may it be with eternity's values in mind and heart.

Praise the Lord, let the time be as it may, for we are now one day closer to our Lord's return when we shall see Jesus Christ face to face. (1 John 3:2-3).

Have a GREAT DAY in the LORD! (Psalm 118:24)

In Christ's Love, Gary L