If you feel that you have no faults, you’ve added to the charges against you.

Does the Bible address these phenomena? Glad you asked.

1 John 1:8

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” 

Psalms 51:3

“For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.” 

Proverbs 28:13

“Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” 

If you don’t believe that you sometimes fail to do right, just ask your mate, relative, children, coworker or neighbor. Get back to me with the results.

Gary

Failure is an event, never a person.

–       William Brown, Welcome Stress!

Do you know the Scripture? Abraham, the father of us all, failed more than once after he was called of God. How many times could you write failure over Jacob? Why did Paul have to confront Peter?

List your failures. Does that make you a failure? No, only if you stay down.

Proverbs 24:16 

For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

Psalm 73:26 

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Get out of that self-pity pit and get going while you still have some battery life. Give it some thought.

Gary

Dr. Seamands tells of a Muslim who became a Christian in Africa. “Some of his friends asked him, ‘Why have you become a Christian?’

He answered, ‘Well, it’s like this. Suppose you were going down the road and suddenly the road forked in two directions, and you didn’t know which way to go, and there at the fork in the road were two men, one dead and one alive–which one would you ask which way to go?'” 

–       Warren Webster, April, 1980, HIS, p. 13.

Christianity has what no other religion possesses and that is a living Savior.

Job 19:25 

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth.

Galatians 2:20 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Choose the road with a living Lord. Give it some thought.

Gary

The Earth orbits around the Sun at a speed of 18.5 miles per second, making one complete revolution in 365.25 days.  

The Earth spins on its axis and rotates completely once every 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds.

The Earth is the fifth largest planet in the solar system, with an equatorial circumference of 24, 902 miles and a total surface area of about 197,000,000 square miles.  Of this total surface area, 29 percent or 57,000,000 miles is covered by land. 

–       Statistics taken from Brittanica.com

You’re riding this thing and you can’t do anything to change it. However, you can do something to change you. Does the Bible address this fact? Glad you asked.

John 3:3 

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Peter 1:23 

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

Stop trying to change the universe and concentrate on yourself. Give it some thought.

Gary

Christianity is spelled with four letters —” D-O-N-E”.  Christianity is not based on what we do but upon what Jesus Christ has already done. If you want to go to heaven, you don’t have to do anything but trust in what Jesus Christ has already done for you.

Psalm 13:5 

But I have trusted in Your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

Psalm 9:10 

And those who know Your name put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

For those who trust, be thankful and for those who haven’t, it’s time. Give it some thought.

Gary

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. 

–       Lin Yutang

The man of Luke 12 didn’t adhere to this principle.  He didn’t realize that being ready for eternity and not barn-building was the priority.

Luke 12:16-20

Then He spoke a parable to them, saying: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. 

And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.”

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

Is barn-building your priority or is it the things of God? Be careful with this one.

Gary

We were two men standing on the summit of Mount Katahdin, looking at the glorious vista. I was in my forties, and he was in his seventies, strangers talking about a place we both loved.  With pain in his voice, he said, “This is my last climb.”

Now I’m in my seventies, and many times I’ve said to myself, “This is the last time.” How many “last times” will I say before the ultimate “last time?”

Does the Bible address this? Glad you asked.

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

After this last climb is over, I’m going to experience a breathtaking view of glory. How about you? Give it some consideration.

Gary