MY FRIENDS, WHEN WE REACH THAT FINAL SUNSET THEN WHAT?

Oct 6, 2015

MY FRIENDS, WHEN WE REACH THAT FINAL SUNSET THEN WHAT?

When the Israelite’s left Egypt Gods tells them; “You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.

And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”  Ex. 19:4-6 (NKJV) But my friends, their blessings were contingent upon them having “no other gods.” In other words nothing could be more important than their commitment and loyalty to Jehovah the only true God of heaven and earth.

But in spite of all that God had done and was willing to continue to do, they were not willing to make a full commitment. So today, God like the “parent bird who takes its young from the nest and teaches it to fly and protects it with it’s own life.

So our Savior bares us up on his wings and protects us from all danger because He is the one ”who goes with us [in every situation and circumstances.] And He will never leave us nor forsake us.” Deut. 31:6 (NKJV)

And like the Israelite’s, He has plans for us, and we are also “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light 1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)

But like the Israelite’s, our blessings are also contingent upon us having no other gods before us. In addition, there must be a commitment to serve and a lifestyle change as to what we see, hear or where we go. “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  Mark 8:36-37 (KJV) My friends, as we move closer to Christ second coming. Satan will begin to try and weaken our spiritual immune system more and more with other gods and the things of this world that we place before Him.

In addition, if our focus is not on the saving grace of our Savior and His word, the only thing that we have to compare success and happiness too, are the things of this world. But God has promised us, if we believe, in the promises in His word.

There is a place, that no “eye has seen, nor ear has heard what He has prepared for each of us who love Him and keeps His commandment” 1 Cor. 2:9 (KJV) “The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique in that  it was not based on the winner or winners who finished first, but on the one who finished with his or her torch still lit.”

My Friends we must finish this race for our savior, with the same desire, passion and determination, that we had when we first found Jesus, with torches still lit, shining just as bright, as we spread the good news of Christ second coming.

Giving it all for the Master must be our mission statement it must be all about His needs not ours because “When we reach that final sunset and we look into his eyes, will the tears we shed be tears of joy or would they be our last goodbye.”

It will be a tragedy to get to that day that we have waited for all our life, and realize that all we had accumulated and accomplished on this earth “could not compare to eternal life” (Wintley Phipps)

My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)