19/08/2013
The Lord is coming soon and yet is seems like we are far from ready to receive Him. Someone once said that "When the opportunity comes it’s too late to prepare." Often we wait for the opportunity to come and fall into our laps before we prepare but instead we should be well prepared before it comes. Are you spiritually right and ready for the coming of the Lord? Are you sure of your place in heaven?
1 Thessalonians 5:2
Today God is speaking to those of us who are “sitting on the fence”, those of us who are “lukewarm”, those of us who want to be in the world and of it and of heaven, and those of us who are serving two masters (directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally). NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE A CHOICE!! And once you make the choice you need to see it through end. Time is running out. Decide where you stand.
Often as young people we believe we want God but feel we can’t live up to His expectations and the expectations of His word. I’m here to tell you that YOU CAN DO IT. His word says in Mathew 5:48 “Therefore you shall BE perfect, just as your Father in heaven BE perfect.” It is possible to live out this command but it’s a PROCESS of being molded like clay in the Potter’s hand (Jeremiah 18).
Apostle Paul says, in Philippians 3:12-14 AMP
12 Not that I have now attained [this ideal], or have already been made perfect, but I press on to lay hold of (grasp) and make my own, that for which Christ Jesus (the Messiah) has laid hold of me and made me His own.
13 I do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own [yet]; but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward”
Like I said it’s a process but you cant be molded unless you START the process, strive and press forward. The fear of failing God should not be your primary thought as it will hold you back but the thought of missing heaven should be! ITS DECISION MAKING TIME!!