But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:8-9
An atheist farmer often ridiculed those who believe in God. He wrote a letter to the local newspaper in which he scoffed, “I plowed on Sunday, planted on Sunday, cultivated on Sunday, and hauled in my crops on Sunday; but I never went to church on Sunday.
Yet I harvested more bushels per acre than anyone else, even those who are God-fearing and never missed a service.”
The editor printed the man’s letter and then added this remark: “God doesn’t always settle His accounts in October.”
– “Our Daily Bread.” Date unknown-
You’ll eventually reap a harvest. Because after the pleasure of sin has passed, the reaping of corruption will follow…what you’re planting right now, will definitely yield a crop.
Sometimes I get homesick for Christ and heaven and all my family waiting there.
So much so, that I want the Lord to return quickly. But then I remember that there are those who do not yet know him. That if Christ returned now, they’d be going to a Christ-less eternity. That scares me for them.
The scariest part of it all is that those He’s waiting on, don’t have forever to decide.
Now I’ll be speaking about those who already know Christ.
Many want to live a life to please themselves without even a thought of eternity. Many think they really know God well, but are fence sitters or lukewarm believers, Meaning they can’t decide which side they want to go to. In essence, they’re living with one foot in the world and one foot with God. And they’re not willing to go that extra mile.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t pan out for them.
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Revelation 3:15-16
Christ won’t contend with this behavior for too long.
Sometime you’ll see lukewarm folk talk about God. Talk real religious. Then in the next breath, use foul language, and party like there’s no tomorrow.
Then come Sunday morning, go right back to God.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
James 3:10-12
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Matthew 16:26
Suppose you asked your spouse if they love you and they replied, “Well, kind of, sometimes, but I just can’t commit to you all the time.. I’ll call you if I need you or if I have nothing better to do.”
That would probably crush you, then make you angry! So, why would we be ok treating Christ like that?
If we think he’s good with that behavior because he’s forgiven us no matter what we do, then we’re using his grace as a license to sin, to do whatever we want.
You need to make a decision about where your loyalties lie.
Sometimes we fall short, all of us at one time or another. I’m talking about more than that. Like when you know and plan your sin and just don’t care. Either you could just care less. You don’t take God serious. You don’t respect him or you really don’t believe him.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:15-16
Eventually God Will return for his church or he’ll call you home personally. Either way, we should always be ready as we’re not promised tomorrow.
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Proverbs 27:1
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Luke 12:20
Lukewarmness Is like having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
(Read 2 Timothy 3:5)
This does not mean we live in constant fear of dying or of Gods wrath. It’s merely a warning of sorts to live a life pleasing to God. Remember, he wants us to live a full and joyful life. That was his idea. (Read John 10:10)
God is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. Just remember, God won’t contend with mankind forever. There will be a cut off point!
I’m not here to judge anyone, but to sound the alarm.
Many Blessings,
Connie
