We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time expected, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.) 2 Corinthians 6:1,2
It was special and it was a privilege to attend this particular Sunday evening church service where a couple I thouroughly loved was ministering in song and testimony. They were accompanied by an old friend, an alcolhoic man who had been delivered from the grips of liquor, an atrocious, Godless past and now considered himself "just an old sinner saved by God's Grace,") and he had come to share his testimony!
As he was finished testifying of his
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will we have years, months or just days to remember that our present "Season of Grace" is short and uncertain?? It is therefore our duty and in our best interest to improve them while we have them and no less than our salvation depends upon our so doing!!
We, the "Church of Jesus Christ" can no longer withdraw or abandon our calling, instead we must give rise to and allow our lives to demonstrate the "good news" and remember that we are God's servants. This is the "right time" to listen, to adhere and obey, God's Holy Word!
We must stay our post, alert and unswervingly... for we are workers together with God!! We can not let the grace we received so freely from God be for nothing!!
We must never give up, but in every way show that we are servants of God; even though we may face troubles, difficulties and problems of every kind!! God gives us the power to rejoice in our suffering, we may be poor, but we have the ability to make many people rich in faith... it may look like we have nothing, but really we have
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For God would say to us, "Your cries came to be at a favorable time, when the doors of welcome were wide open and I helped you on a day when salvation was being offered to us!"
Listen! If we are serious about living this resurrection life with Christ... we must act like it!! Pursuing the things over which Christ presides, we can no longer shuffle along, eyes looking to the ground absorbed with the things that are right in front of us.
It's time to "Look Up," and be alert to what God wants to do in our lives... it's time we see our lives from His perspective! The old life is died when we received our salvation, and our new life... which is our "real life...." even though invisible to spectators, is in Christ Jesus!
We must let the peace of Christ keep us in tune with Him and with each other... no going off and doing our own thing! We can start by cultivating "thankfulness" and letting the the Word of God run the House of