Message from Scripture: 10/27/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today comes from Rom. 14:8; “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.”

 

Some time ago I read these words. “If you try to talk with a dying person, someone genuinely not long for this world, about sports, business, or politics, that individual is no longer interested. Whoever it is now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.”

 

Satan is an expert in getting us to major in minors, to focus on the incidentals instead of the important. He does this, because nothing is more important than one's relationship to God and eternal judgment. Solomon, who pursued pleasure as intensely as anyone today, summed it up well. “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’” (Eccl. 12:1).  Solomon then emphasized why the spiritual is so important. “The end of the matter; all has been heard.  Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.  For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil” (Eccl. 12:13-14).

 

If today were our last (and for all we know, it could possibly be), what would be important to you? The psalmist reminds us, “The death of his faithful ones is valuable in the LORD’s sight” (Psa. 116:15). Today, let’s live life to its fullest, which should mean living in the image of Christ, that whenever we leave this existence, we have something better waiting for us in eternity. God bless.

 

Robert