Devotional Guide For the week of March 23, 2008
THE LIFE TO COME?
About what we are made for
To read the Bible in one year, today read Job 28-30
To Know:
³He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity
into
manıs mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the
beginning to the end.² (Ecc. 3:11)
Old style zoos were awful. Great and glorious beasts like the lion paced
their life away in a cage hardly bigger than an oversized closet. The lion
has in its heart the great outdoors and cannot sit still for life inside a
trap. For the same reasons, sinners pace about in the thoughts of their
own
minds. God made us with eternity in mind and we try to make the best of
three score years and ten. The longing for everlasting life is in our
being.
If we do not have eternal life, we will need a pacifier. Our friends had a
baby before us and brought her to dinner one night. The infant began to
cry
at exactly the wrong time and, horrors of horrors mother had forgotten the
pacifier. This would prove to be one very long night. The world is full of
pacifiers. We were designed for eternal life and if we are on our way to
death and destruction we need to be pacified. The options are many. We can
drink our life away, gamble it away, entertain it away, work it away; this
list is almost unending. Everything on the list is always unsatisfying.
God
made us for himself and eternal life. Until and unless we pass from death
to
life, we will live like a caged beast.
To Do:
The cage in which we pace our lives away is pride. Everyone destined to
perish with this world is trapped by the inability to say to God, Iım
sorry.
Only God can spring the trap. We need to call upon the Lord to give us the
will to will his will. That is how deep our need for Godıs grace goes.
To Ask:
Father, I have tried it my way, it doesnıt work. Now I ask that you would
have your way with me.
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