NOTES AND QUOTES FOR TODAY:
Moments of Time
How You Spend Time Depends On How You Spend Eternity!!
One hundred years ago, who would have believed that some day man would be propelling himself over one mile a minute over land, and in the air ten miles a minute, and also have the ability to sit and view events taking place hundreds of miles away? Yet today automobiles, jet planes TV sets and computers are considered the ordinary things of life. What dramatic change have taken place in what we consider a moment of time.
In the Bible we also see various moments of time. In this article we consider four of them.
1.Man’s life time: In the book of James 4:4 we read, “For what is life? It is even a vapor, that appearth for a little time and then vanisheth away.” Man has the habit of driving his stakes and planting his feet on earth as if he were going to be here forever, but the solemn fact remains, his life-time is only but a vapor that appearth for a little time. In the book of Job 7:6, and 9:6 we read, “His days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.” “they are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagles that hasteth to the prey.”
Not only is your life a vapour, but it also becomes increasingly swift as you grow older. In a Scottish church, these words were found on the back of an old clock, the author is unknown.
When as a child, I laughed and wept, – Time crept.
When as a youth, I dreamed and talked, – Time Walked.
When I became a full grown man, – Time Ran.
And as I older grew, – Time Flew.
Soon I shall find, when traveling on, – Time will be Gone.
Will God have saved my soul by then; Then I will shout AMEN!!
2.Man’s Death: In the book of Job 34:20 and 18:18 we read, “ In a moment shall they die.” “He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.” How often man’s short lifetime is climaxed by sudden death!! In mortal man, we find soul, body hugging one another in mutual embraces – then death comes like a whirlwind and separates them.
Many never experience a death-bed, but in the bloom of health, are hurled into eternal darkness in a moment of time. Over 50,000 meet death on our highways yearly. One F.B.I agent said, “ the child born in 1974 will have a greater chance of being murdered in his life time, than a soldier in combat in World War II.” Our breath is in the hand of God, and how often, apart from accident and violence, He silently closes His hands to take the soul away.
Dear friend, do not wait to get saved on your death bead, for many never have one. We read in Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” Now is the time and today is the day of Salvation, for death often takes place in a moment of time!
3.God’s Salvation: we read in Luke 19:9, “this day is salvation come to the house.” I have heard it is said that you have to grow into being a Christian, and that you have to work at it. However God says exactly the opposite! Becoming a Christian involves birth, not growth! The Lord Jesus said, to one of the most religious man ever lived in His day to a man named Nicodemus in the Gospel of John 3:7, “….. Except a man be born again he can not see the kingdom of God, and except a man be born again he can not enter the kingdom of God. Marvel not I say unto thee ye must be born again.” Dearly beloved the new birth is a must without which no man can see and enter into the kingdom of God.
You know, unless and until we see ourselves as God sees us we find no reason or desire to be saved. God sees everyone as SINNERS! “for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Every one of us are included in that word “ALL” no one exempted!! A person who does not admit that he is not a sinner is just a sheer hypocrite!! As a sinner there is no way out! All are under the condemnation of God! God’s wrath and judgment awaits them.
The only way out of this dreadful judgment – the judgment of Hell is the blood shed of Christ God’s Son, who died for you and me. Have you ever seen your lost condition, that Christ shed His blood on the Cross for your sin? Beloved Salvation can be yours’s if you turn from your sin (first and foremost the sin of unbelief) and receive Christ as your Personal Saviour. Yes Salvation takes place in a moment of time!
4.The Lord’s Coming: A great event will take place any day and any moment, and in 1st Thessalonians 4:16-17 we read, “The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout….the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
How many today scoff or mock at the thought of the second coming of our Lord. They say, “ oh! Well we have heard this preaching all our days, that the Lord is coming, but everything is going just the same”. To such scoffers Peter writes in 2nd Peter 3:5 “ For they willingly are ignorant of, that ……” And in verse 9 of the same chapter he explains why the Lord delays His coming, when he says, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness: but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
Yes why does the Lord delay His coming? It is to give the unsaved multitude another day of repentance. Thank God, He is still long suffering so that you and I would not be left out. Remember this and consider it carefully: Life is short, death often times is sudden, and when least expected. “Prepare to meet thy God!!” Yes, if the Lord delays His coming, then death is coming for you and me. Flee to Christ today, receive Him, Trust Him, believe up on Him, and obtain eternal Salvation.
The one commodity that is wasted more than anything else is Time. Do not count your years, rather make your years count!
“…..So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12
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The Bible reveals two ways which people are following to get into heaven. One way, the true way, is God’s way. God’s way into heaven is the way of peace and truth and righteousness. It is the only way approved of God. This way centers in the Lord Jesus Christ who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). The Bible declares that there is another way. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12).
There are so many popular ways today filled with lost multitudes all over the land, such as the way of morality, the way of respectability, the way of religion, the way of churchianity, the way of baptism, the way of christening, the way of confirmation, the way of penance, the way of confession, the way of “doing the best I can”, the way of self, the way of education, the way of philosophy, the way of false isms and cults that crowd the street. Little wonder then when we speak to people about the way of salvation, that so many have asked, “How can I know which is the true way? There are so many different ideas and so many religions.”
But there is ONE difference between God’s way of salvation and man’s way, and that difference is found in a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. You will notice that man leaves Christ out of the center of his way. You will discover that the modern false cults and isms demote Christ to a mere man and add something to what He has already done for your salvation and mine. We become children of God through a supernatural birth. Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Jesus also said, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:7)
“May the Lord bless you, and make you a blessing!” – The PGH Staff.
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