Unleashing Your Potential: Embracing God's Purpose for Strength
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What is the main message about urgency in our lives?
Kyllä, se on lempeä kesä nyt, kun elämänmaku on kaikista makein. Mieli kuin nuorena tyttönä kaurapellolla, kun saa liihottaa. Nauti vaan ja ota väli pala välissä.
Yes, it is. Life, Veena. Full of life.
We need to live with an urgency. An urgency to do everything Jesus Christ has set out for us to do. Live with an urgency because you don't have the time to waste by not being who God called you to be. We don't have time to dabble outside of what we know we're here for. A pastor I know asked an older man on his deathbed, What's one of the most sobering realities of life that comes to mind for you right now? The old man answered, The brevity of it. It's short. It passes by quickly. And many people are hit with the reality that life has passed by very quickly when it's too late. So hear me clearly. Time does not wait on you. It will never wait on you. God purposely gave you this one brief life. So make your time count.
The number of days you have on this earth should produce some kind of fruit for God's purposes. You have lives to touch. You have unbelievers that you need to point to Christ. You have a call to serve. You have assignments to fulfill with a due date that you are not aware of. Let that not lead you to procrastination with your deeds. Let it instead lead you to labor like the due date is today. Work with urgency. Serve with urgency. Love with urgency. Pray with an urgency. Seek God with an urgency. Every day really does count. Our lives will be judged one day by our Father in heaven. And I mean everything. Every deed we've done or not done in our precious time on this earth will be held in account before God.
This is the knowledge we have now while there is still something to be done about it. So do something about it. Do all you can about it. The Bible says in James 2, verse 14, What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? At the end of it all, our works will be judged and tried by fire. They will be judged and tried by fire. Let's not breeze through that statement. When that statement was made by Paul in 1 Corinthians, the Corinthians knew exactly what it meant to be tried by fire. The city of Corinth had been run through and devoured by flames itself. Everything that could have possibly been consumed by the fire was consumed by it. The fire tried the city, leaving only the great marble standing, while everything else was annihilated.
This fire judged the city of Corinth in a definitive, irreversible way. In this same way, our works will be judged by fire. It will burn everything that can be burned, and only that which is deemed worthy by God will remain. So I'm saying that only what we do for Christ and in Christ will stand after the trial by fire. We have work to do and little time to do it. We all know that no man knows the day or hour that Christ will return. At any moment, he could decide to snatch his church away. So what would each and every one of us have to show for our lives up to this moment? We've all heard the phrase, the last days since biblical times.
A few of the New Testament letters include this phrase as... The writers pressed their readers on toward greater acts in the name of the Lord.
How can we make our time count for God's purposes?
They did not know whether the Lord would return very soon or not. But they knew it was important to stress that we are living in the last days in God's eyes. Maybe this is because every generation needs to have a sense of urgency in their actions. Perhaps the term last days isn't necessarily a definitive countdown of the exact number of days until Christ returns. Perhaps the term the last days is simply another way of saying live with urgency because life is short. Every generation needs to know that it could in fact be the last days during their lifetime. Every generation needs to know that they have an important role in God's plan for the kingdom. We're all contributors in the body of Christ. We're all important.
We're serving the kingdom of God, and so we should be, we have to be, effective members in the body of Christ.
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