Message from Scripture: 6/7/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is 1 John 2:17. “The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”

 

If you stop and think about it, most of our problems come from choosing the world over the will of God. In every area when we seek out human counsel apart from God’s word, we err and complicate the course of our lives. This is what happens when we pursue wealth without spirituality.  In the parable of the rich fool, Jesus reflected on the course he had chosen by saying, “'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God” (Luke 12:20-21). Or what of those who seek pleasure apart from righteousness?  Paul wrote, “She who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives” (1 Tim 5:6).   Gaining the newest or most wanted possessions is worthless if we don’t focus on the spiritual. Peter reminds us, “Live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God” (1 Pet. 4:2).

 

Solomon said, “For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil” (Eccl 12:14). Rejecting God’s will not only adds problems to life today, but will bring condemnation forever! We can’t continue in sin and expect grace to abound (Rom. 6:1), but living in Christ will allow us to know God’s grace and mercy (2 Tim. 2:1).  The choices of life lead us to eternity; which choices are we making?

 

Today, let’s choose to allow God His rightful place in our minds, our hearts, our lives. Let’s go out to serve Him as our Lord and Savior, and make a difference in the world where we live. Heaven is too wonderful, and hell to horrible, to do otherwise. God bless.

 

Robert