While You Still Can
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Time Will Ravage Also You.
Don’t Be A Chicken And Run Away!
Face Life and It’s Challenges
Each Day.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
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John 21:18
Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.”
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Words of Grace for Today –
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Getting old is not for sissies, and it’s not for everyone.
Just look at all the people who die young, who will die young because they live hard lives. I’m not talking about those who are caught in a hard life. That’s most people who have and will ever live. I’m talking about those who choose to live fast, furious, stupid, pleasure seeking, danger seeking, alcohol or drug or nicotine or sugar induced entertainment until it becomes an addiction.
Getting old is tough.
Real tough.
So while you are young,
start doing what you know is right.
If you don’t who is going to do what only you can do
to help the helpless
to feed the hungry, in famines and wars and poverty cages,
to bring water to those caught in droughts or dry areas because someone steals their water,
give clothing to those without, who suffer the environmental dangers and risks each day,
give homes to the homeless, as their number multiples year after year,
give peace to the troubled, whether they’ve made their own trouble or had it dumped on them,
give hope to the hopeless, for what else is there!
Give love to the loveless, for to be unable to love is a curse greater than any other.
And receive God’s thanks, for as a servant, this is what God gave you life for.
God will reward you with straight paths,
straight to heaven on earth,
or, if you resist and refuse and deny and turn away and rebel against the Holy Spirit, there will be a path straight to hell on earth, a hell of your own making.
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So he said to himself, as he rose to another day, wishing for youthful energy, fewer challenges of age, and a long list of must-do’s and should-do’s
and little opportunity to help others
much.
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What about you?
Need a word of encouragement? Heaven or hell? Which is it for you today?