Monday Devotional Thoughts

I am using an online reading devotional by Billy Graham and today it is talking about living in constant anticipation of the return of Jesus Christ.  "If we could live every day as though it may be the very last one before the final judgment, what a difference it would make here on earth! But we don't' like to think that way.  We don't like to think that our carefully made plans, our long range schemes may be interrupted by the trumpet of God."

Well, how about that? That steps on my toes a little for sure!  I am making plans for our invitro, for vacations, for house renovations...trivial everyday stuff...all the time.  How about the important stuff.  Drawing closer to a relationship with God?  Seeking His will for my life.  Sure, I think about it.  But is it a today could be my last day on earth kinda thing?  Nope.  I have things I'd like to do before God returns.  Like be a mom.  Like clean out our other house and get it on the market.  Like lose weight. Priorities.  Hmm. 

Now I'm not gonna beat myself up over this, because I believe that satan would love nothing more than to put that thought in my head, to convince me I'm not able to please God, to be "good enough".  Well, what I do know is that I don't have to be good enough.  God sent His Son, to die for me.  I can't be good enough, do good enough, read my Bible enough or go to church enough.  It doesn't work that way.  God sent His Son to die so that my sins were forgiven.  He only asks me to follow Him.  Repent of my sins.  Seek a relationship with Him.  It's not rocket science.  But, it does require a commitment from me.  So for that...I will move this thought forward...

What if today was my last day?  Have I done all I can do to reach people for Jesus?  Seek Him out and praise Him? On the days that the answer is no, I will lean back on His grace is sufficient for me.

2 Corinthians 12:9  But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness."  Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.

Blessings, S