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Word for
Today - August 15, 2000 Me, Teja, Twenty One Ecclesiastes
11:8-10 (English-NIV)
However many years a man may live, let him enjoy
them all. But let him remember the days
of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is meaningless. Be happy, young man, while you are young,
and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of
your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God
will bring you to judgment. So then,
banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for
youth and vigor are meaningless. Reference Links: http://mypage.goplay.com/sisterhood/ http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/odb/odb.shtml http://www.users.uswest.net/~kcob/bum.htm
Comments: (All views expressed are those of Teresa Christian alone, and not
the views of any other business entity or church affiliation) The melancholy preacher is just trying to put things in perspective
and I for one; I needed to hear it from the Lord on age too. Remember this first, all of you eternal and
everlasting beings, we shall be raised incorruptible and our age will not even
be a number (1 Corinthians 15:52), amen. However, in the
earth, age is really a clock. A clock
to keep the believer on task and on target.
Just recently I did my own math.
I subtracted the age I am now from 75, an average lifetime to give
myself a time-clock on how much more time I would have to accomplish the
praiseworthy things I want to accomplish.
I'll tell you the significance of this life went off in my head like an
alarm clock. How much time I had left
to say, God is not finished with me yet, forgive my weaknesses. How much time left I had to turn souls to
the Lord. How much time left I had to
hug my children and embrace strangers with the Truth. So much so, I was encouraged to do better, sooner; not to
languish any longer in my own iniquity.
Nonetheless, the writer here is simply saying how being puffed up about
ones youth or down and out about being middle-aged or old-age, is still a day
to be celebrated and thankful for all the same (Psalms 118:24). Enjoy
everyday the Lord gives you to celebrate your life and His. Don't be ashamed that you are young and
able-bodied, enjoy that right, but make good use of it too. He warns that some of the all activities
will still bring retribution if they do not measure up to Truth (Galatians 6:7), God is not mocked, sin is sin
afterall. I could tell you this too, so
many sins I am still paying the price for, like a maxed-out credit card, a debt
is a debt, is a debt my friend. All sin
is forgiven, but we live in the natural world and lightening strikes still burn
the hell out of you if you get hit by one, amen. God bless the child that receives the adult message in his youth (Psalms 1:1). In his youth, Moses in his strength and zeal was not as value
added to the Lord until he spent over forty years in training, he was 80 when
the Lord used him to lead the people out of Egypt out of bondage, amen. Sarah and Abraham did not bring the son of
promise into the world until they were 100 and 90. I know that as for some our young people, you can hardly tell
them anything. They simply must see for
themselves. This is my own daughter,
Teja Diamond Teresa Christian Psalms 1:1 Blessed is
the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of
sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. Reference List 1
Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 2 Peter
3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the
Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. Psalms
118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Galatians
6:7 Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Proverbs
12:15 and 14:12 The way
of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man
listens to advice. There is a way
that seems right to a man, but in
the end it leads to death. Isaiah
46:9-11 Remember the former things of old: for I am God,
and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end
from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a
ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far
country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed
it, I will also do it. Luke
12:6-8 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and
not one of them is forgotten before God?
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not
therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him
shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: |
