Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, "If I had my life to live over again.”Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino (1923-1996)
Romans 13:12-13
The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us •walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy. (HCSB)
I see many names in the news this morning. A governor whose legacy is adultery, an actress who painted the minds of many, and a rock star whose moonwalk and music marked his life. I also heard one man comment that he thought that the rock star would, quote, “live forever.” But the sad fact is that these are not forever things, they are earthly things.
Many things can be said about what these people have done, or not done, but that is not the question for you and I today. It is this. What are we doing that will go with us into eternity? God will not be impressed with moonwalks, beauty, or position, God will only ask one question, what have you done to return the debt of love that you owed my Son…
People daily are wasting precious time on temporal things that are not eternal, and no matter how much they impress you and me, we will not be their judge, God is. In light of that during the pomp and glitter of the next few days, place it in context of deeds that will impress our eternal Father. For God will not be impressed on how we pleased the world, but on how we pleased Him…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
Og Mandino (1923-1996)
Romans 13:12-13
The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us •walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy. (HCSB)
I see many names in the news this morning. A governor whose legacy is adultery, an actress who painted the minds of many, and a rock star whose moonwalk and music marked his life. I also heard one man comment that he thought that the rock star would, quote, “live forever.” But the sad fact is that these are not forever things, they are earthly things.
Many things can be said about what these people have done, or not done, but that is not the question for you and I today. It is this. What are we doing that will go with us into eternity? God will not be impressed with moonwalks, beauty, or position, God will only ask one question, what have you done to return the debt of love that you owed my Son…
People daily are wasting precious time on temporal things that are not eternal, and no matter how much they impress you and me, we will not be their judge, God is. In light of that during the pomp and glitter of the next few days, place it in context of deeds that will impress our eternal Father. For God will not be impressed on how we pleased the world, but on how we pleased Him…God’s Blessings.
Pastor William
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