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Breaking Free From the Status Quo

March 3, 2014 / / 1 Comment
November 10, 2010 at 10:47pm

I’m about to hit the 62-year-old mark, and I’ve been thinking a lot about what I have accomplished.  I’m never satisfied with the results until I know I’ve done all that I can do.  However, I wonder if I’m going to ever do anything significant for God, if He is even going to use me in a semi-major way, or am I simply going to while away the years with mundane and minuscule activity.

As I contemplated this for many days, and prayed much about it, I realized that it doesn’t matter.  I just have to be faithful in whatever it is that God deems proper for me to be involved in.  That means I am accountable for every day, for every moment of opportunity, and for what I can do to minister to every soul I meet.

This morning as I was praying and meditating, I thought about yesterday.  I went over my activity during the day and wondered if I had been faithful to my calling.  I decided that the end of each day—or better yet, at the beginning of the next day—I would ask myself the following questions.

  1. Am I a better person for what I did today?
  2. Have my accomplishments today ministered to or blessed anyone?
  3. Has my behavior caused any one to consider accepting Christ as Lord and Savior?
  4. Did I make an attempt to know and obey God’s will?
  5. What did I do today that will register for eternity?
  6. Did I waste any time, money, or other valuable resources?
  7. Were the most important people in my life treated as such (with opportunity of course)?
  8. How much life did I spend worrying about the things, events, and people that aggravated or frustrated me?
  9. Am I satisfied with how I spent my life today?
  10. Is God satisfied with how I spent my life today?

I may alter the list as I go forward, but I’m determined that I will not waste life complaining about it.  Somehow, I will accomplish something, even if it is so small that no one notices it but God.  I hope you do too.

Miscellaneous Articles

March 3, 2014 / / 5 Comments

Just some midnight rambling commentary from an old warrior.

November 17, 2010 at 11:30pm

After I’ve defeated giant number 3000, isn’t it about time to quit worrying about whether I’m going to win the next battle?  What I mean is, if I am still standing today, it has been in spite of innumerable battles that I have won.  Even the ones that I thought I lost, I still won because of two things—they didn’t take me out and I learned valuable lessons.  I’m beginning to see why God became so displeased with Israel in the desert.  He sent them mighty miracles, and they traded praising Him for the sport of complaining.  No doubt it wasn’t easy for them.  Life in the temporal realm can be very harsh at times.  I’ve had my share of sorrows and I cannot say that my present status is one to be desired.  Maybe I’m beginning to mellow in my old age, but I’m getting to the point that I have stopped worrying over most problems.  All real problems are worrisome to someone.  It depends on the person concerning how worrisome it is or may become.  Focusing on God and His faithfulness to me in the past reduces my worrying about the problem.  Besides, large problems are opportunities for miracles and miracles are like adrenalin to my faith.  I was thinking about David’s large problem, Goliath.  What if David had had to fight a small enemy?  It’s one thing to hit a giant with a slingshot and quit another to hit a wasp with the same weapon.  David pointed to past successes and could have remarked to himself, “Look at the size of that target!”  I’ve decided to launch my faith at those large problems.  How could I miss?

The Dividing Line

March 3, 2014 / / 3 Comments

There has been enough said and written about the “Son of God” movie to convince people who are willing to listen to truth. The ones who believe it is a good movie will not change their minds. People that cannot recognize the issues with the movie before they watch it will probably not detect anything wrong about it after they watch it. Nothing I can add will make a difference either way. God does not force people to follow Him, and neither can we force them to accept the truth. The dividing line has been drawn.

The most disconcerting factor in the situation is the unwillingness of people to even consider the facts and God’s word. Instead of saying, “Well I didn’t know that, please tell me more”, they go on the attack. I’m used to being called names, accused of being everything from a heretic to demoniac, but not to the extent that I received during the past few days. The synopsis of most responses minus the diatribes is, “I don’t care what you say, I don’t want to hear it, I like the movie” ala Matthew Hagee. I can’t argue with that.

It appears that everyone that has spent the past decade ignoring the warnings are incapable of hearing them now. I don’t know all the reasons they chose that path. For some it was bad soteriology and for others bad eschatology. Some professing Christians have become so enamored by the world system that they have no taste for things spiritual. The Apostle Paul wrote concerning endtimes professing Christians:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

Finally, there is this word from David Wilkerson.

I keep this foremost in my mind and before my eyes, because every minister of the gospel one day has to face it when he stands before the Lord. He will say, “Son of man, I made thee a watchman. You were to hear the words of My mouth and give them warnings from Me. You were to tell the wicked, ‘Thou shalt surely die.’ And you gave them no warning nor spoke to warn the wicked to turn from their wicked ways to save their lives. These same wicked men died in their sins, but their blood I’ll require at your hands.”

The rest of the message can be found at the following link. True Discernment

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