Satan has only a few packages he’s been selling for six thousand years. Almost all of them have to do with wealth, power, sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. Even the ones not listed still fit in the category of ME. SELF. The devil is in the selfish business. You can pretty much use the test of anything and if it comes up about me and not for the Kingdom and the Lord it’s self.
I saw these verses reading through the One Year Bible the other day.
Psalm 119:36-37 – 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.
37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.
Picture this: Bam! Your heart stops ticking. What do you have? Memories for the eternal old folks home?
No. You have your testimony of how you lived. How did you do? Was it all for you? Was it for others but not based on the Lord? What do you have to present to the Lord?
People want to live by a scale of good and bad. Without an ultimate authority one wouldn’t even know what that is. But we do have an Ultimate Authority. His Son died on the cross and the acceptance of that death in the place of your own and making Him Lord is the only thing that counts for salvation.
Then there is the authority of accountability. Whoops. We’re back to who did you serve?
The good news is there is some time left to finish the race strong. Don’t stand around on the track though, all the signs are pointing to a very soon return.
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June 3, 2013 at 3:05 pm
that one gets right to the point, I like it