Thursday, September 17, 2015

Word For The Day

Word For The Day

“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” 
—Jesus
(Luke 21:34-36)

Jesus always focused on our hearts. He taught that adultery and murder both begin in the heart. And here He says we need to be careful and take heed to ourselves... "lest our hearts be weighed down."

The cares of this life can make a heart and life weighed down and unfruitful. Self-idolatry, political fanaticism, materialism, hedonism; all these keep one's eyes off the Lord and on the self...a sure-fire recipe for depression, delusion, and disaster.


The only way to be counted worthy to stand before the Son of man is to place your faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.  Then He counts you as righteous. You have none of your own. 

Only by repenting of your sin and believing in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and His resurrection, can you be saved from your sin, which has separated you from God.

Jesus said,

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed."
(John 3:16-20)

Turn your heart to Jesus.

There is only a certain amount of time left...


God is Love and Love Never Fails.



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