The wise man learns from tragedy. The foolish man merely repeats it." Michael Novak Wisdom and foolishness call us, appealing us to enjoy their pleasures. There is joy in following wisdom and pain in following foolishness. Choose wisdom.
We all make choices every day that can affect the rest of our lives. When we make the wrong choices, it is how we react to them that matters the most. Do we learn from our decision and learn wisdom or do we look the other way and become more foolish.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Comfort Zone
God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!” - Charles Spurgeon
We are all guilty of this on. Today we say, I can't go share my faith, I am scared they will make fun of me. In the old days they said, I will share my faith even if they kill me! We say, I can't get up that early or I have to much too do today to go to church or talk to others about Christ. They hid so they could worship without being feed to the lions! The thing is people are still being persecuted in the name of Christ all over the world. When we think of how it might affect us we are not thinking of Christ. Do you have a couple of things on your to do list that have to do with Christ but hundreds of other things that don't? Remember, we will all answer to God one day for the things we have done on this earth. What excuse will you give Him? Will it be that there was so many other things to do you had no time for Him or His work? It is easy to find a reason not to go to church or to share your faith, but their is only one reason to do these things, JESUS CHRIST! Get out of your comfort zone and do the work that Christ tells you to do!The Bible can explain it better than I can please read His words.
James 2:14-26
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your[d] works, and I will show you my faith by my[e] works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?[f] 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[g]And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
We are all guilty of this on. Today we say, I can't go share my faith, I am scared they will make fun of me. In the old days they said, I will share my faith even if they kill me! We say, I can't get up that early or I have to much too do today to go to church or talk to others about Christ. They hid so they could worship without being feed to the lions! The thing is people are still being persecuted in the name of Christ all over the world. When we think of how it might affect us we are not thinking of Christ. Do you have a couple of things on your to do list that have to do with Christ but hundreds of other things that don't? Remember, we will all answer to God one day for the things we have done on this earth. What excuse will you give Him? Will it be that there was so many other things to do you had no time for Him or His work? It is easy to find a reason not to go to church or to share your faith, but their is only one reason to do these things, JESUS CHRIST! Get out of your comfort zone and do the work that Christ tells you to do!The Bible can explain it better than I can please read His words.
James 2:14-26
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your[d] works, and I will show you my faith by my[e] works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?[f] 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[g]And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Monday, June 9, 2008
SIN
Why does a living man complain?" Lamentations 3:39You have no reason to complain, as long as you are out of hell. Do you murmur, because you are under pain and sickness? Nay, bless God, you are not there where the worm never dies! Do you grudge, that you are not in so good a condition in the world as some of your neighbors are? Be thankful, rather, that you are not in the condition of the damned! Is your money gone from you? Thank Godthat the fire of His wrath has not consumed you! Kiss the rod, O sinner! and acknowledge mercy!
This on is strong but true. We complain about things that go wrong in our lives and how tough we have it sometimes but we have a way out, people in hell do not. They are there for eternity with no way of escape. How bad does your problem look to you now? Think about your friends and family that do not know Christ as their personal Lord and savior. What will happen to them if they die in their sins? Where will they spend eternity? Why do you not share the saving grace of Christ with them? I would rather a friend be me mad at me because I told him the truth than love me for telling him a lie or nothing at all. Go share your faith with someone before it's to late.God bless,
This on is strong but true. We complain about things that go wrong in our lives and how tough we have it sometimes but we have a way out, people in hell do not. They are there for eternity with no way of escape. How bad does your problem look to you now? Think about your friends and family that do not know Christ as their personal Lord and savior. What will happen to them if they die in their sins? Where will they spend eternity? Why do you not share the saving grace of Christ with them? I would rather a friend be me mad at me because I told him the truth than love me for telling him a lie or nothing at all. Go share your faith with someone before it's to late.God bless,
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