SaturdayNov 23, 2024
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If you are worshipping false godssuch as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silverand you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sundayrepent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.
The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the 'second mile' and told us to go there. Why? Because he wants to bless us, and he put all the blessings in the second mile.
The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures hes back on his feet.
Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you can stand your foot in a vise for a while if you know its going to be released soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.
Once baptized, we then receive the Holy Ghost, a special gift from God, which is priceless beyond expression. The Holy Ghost bears witness of the Father and the Son and guides us to all truth and comforts us and gives us peace for the rest of our lives.
Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for thats when the blessings flow.
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