QOD 2-14-12

I love what Bro. Daniel said Sunday morning, "wake us up to the possibbilities we have in Christ".  Let's not get caught up in traditions, but follow Christ.

And when they hear it, they glorified God.  And they said to Him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are amont the Jews of those who have believed.  They are all zealous for the law Acts 21:20

They believed in Christ but were clinging to the law.  There is freedom in Christ!

me:
So many people view freedom as total independance.  That may be the human view of freedom but true freedom can only be found by dependance on God alone... complete dependance.  We get so caught up on behaving by or breaking the laws of this world that we forget what God has commanded us to do, therefore, putting the laws of this broken world before Him.  Then we wonder why we are still lost, mis-guided, and utterly confused.  Oh, if we would only read our Bibles we would know...

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. 1 Corinthians 1:25

We just don't get it.  We have all the answers we need...  Have you ever thought to yourself, "Oh, I'll get to that later, when I'm older and have more time for it... and when I've had all my fun."  Oh my, please don't let God's word and truth get in they way of your fun.  You have plenty of time!!!  (I sure hope you can sense my sarcasm.)

Our days are numbered, but we don't know the count.  Your "11th hour" could be this minute, or it might be tomorrow.  We don't know, and we are promised to know.  Don't take it for granted that you have more time on this Earth then you are promised.  It's just foolish.

Do you think life ends at death?  Is that why you're consumed with fitting all the fun into your life that you possibly can before you die?  Sadly, you will never experience the true joy God has planned for you that way... but you will still die.  The choice is yours...  Sure, life can end with death... or life can begin with death. 

The Bible refers to death as "sleeping"

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. ¹⁴ For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. ¹⁵ According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words  1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

As Pastor Rick (lead paster of Colonial Hills Church ) said, "WAKE UP before you fall asleep!"... Wake up to God's truth.