11/16–My uncle used to say if he couldn’t take it with him he didn’t want to go. The reality is we all are going to die and we can’t take anything with us. Therefore, we have to use it before we die to do anyone any good.
Everything in life has an expiration date. Just like the date manufacturers put on all the goods they sell that tells the last date it is safe for us that we should use their product. There is no guarantee for us to use it after that certain date.
Similarly, there is a limited time for us to be able to do what we intend to do. So we must get busy to get done the items on our mission statement, and our to do list and our bucket lists. I had a bad heart attack in July, 2012. They said I cheated death and that I was at Death’s door! I was in the hospital for about seven days and four of those I spent in the Critical Care Unit or CCU. You had better believe that I reviewed my life and all the things I should’ve and could’ve done.
I knew that even though I might have cheated Death that Death would be back for me again one day. Having this knowledge, I found it inexcusable that I wouldn’t be ready next time. So that’s what I’m doing at this moment trying to mark off some items. on my bucket list. No one else can do that for you. The responsibility lies in you and in you alone!
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Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
If you can’t find two minutes, can you spare just one?
A man told the story about the man that dreaded a certain dog that would bark at him every day. It was a big dog but one day he grabbed the brick and when the dog came close just before he threw the brick he could see inside the dogs mouth and the dog didn’t have any teeth.
And many of us spend our lives running from things that don’t even have any teeth!!! Can’t do us any harm.
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”-Napoleon Hill”
“If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear. Overcome your fears instead of attempting to avoid them.”
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever”
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Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
A mother from Costa Mesa, California told about the day her little three-year old son was on her heels wherever she went. She was having trouble doing her routine chores.
She said, “Whenever I stopped to do something and turned back around I would trip over him. Several times I suggested fun activities to keep him occupied, but he would just smile and say, ‘That’s alright Mommie, I’d rather be in here with you.’ He continued to follow me and after the fifth trip my patience wore thin and I asked him why he was following me constantly.”
He said, “My Sunday school teacher told me to walk in Jesus’ footsteps but I can’t see Him so I’m walking in yours.”
When your son or daughter sees how God is meeting the needs in your life he or she can then follow in your footsteps and invite God to meet the needs in his or her life as well.
– adapted from Lee Strobel, Chicago, IL
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A mother from Costa Mesa, California told about the day her little three-year old son was on her heels wherever she went. She was having trouble doing her routine chores.
She said, “Whenever I stopped to do something and turned back around I would trip over him. Several times I suggested fun activities to keep him occupied, but he would just smile and say, ‘That’s alright Mommie, I’d rather be in here with you.’ He continued to follow me and after the fifth trip my patience wore thin and I asked him why he was following me constantly.”
He said, “My Sunday school teacher told me to walk in Jesus’ footsteps but I can’t see Him so I’m walking in yours.”
When your son or daughter sees how God is meeting the needs in your life he or she can then follow in your footsteps and invite God to meet the needs in his or her life as well.
– adapted from Lee Strobel, Chicago, IL
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