November 6, 2019
MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS.
“The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow, for it will soon be cut off, and we fill fly away…..So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom (apply our hearts unto wisdom, KJV).” Psalms 90: 10,12, NKJV.
Without life time has no existence, no meaning, no value. God in Christ alone is the Source, Giver and Sustainer of life, temporal and eternal. Thus we read: “Our time belongs to God. Every moment is His, and we are under the most solemn obligation to improve it to His glory.
Of no talent He has given will He require a more strict account than of our time. (Remember that!). The value of time is beyond computation. Christ regarded every moment as precious, and it is thus that we should regard it. Life is to short to be trifled away. We have but a few days of probation in which to prepare for eternity.
We have no time to waste, no time to devote to selfish, self-pleasing pleasure, no time for indulgence of sin. It is now (no procrastination) that we are to form characters for the future, immortal life. It is now that we are to prepare for the searching Judgment. (As salvation is individual so is the pre-advent Judgment). The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to die, and the world’s incessant labor ends in nothingness UNLESS a true knowledge in regard to eternal life is gained.
The person who appreciates time as his working day will fit himself for a mansion and for a life that is immortal. It is well that he was born…..In him who does this, a transformation of character takes place. He becomes a son/daughter if God, a member of the royal family, a child of the heavenly King. He is fitted to be a companion of angels.”- COL 342.
Do we now better understand what it means to be a member of God’s royal family in heaven? It begins here and now in the transformation of character. “The thoughts and feelings combined make up the moral character.” NMF