Day 19: Joyful Living
Look BACK,
Who were you in yesteryears?
Look NOW.
Who are you today?
Look FORWARD.
Who will you be in tomorrow?
Now LOOK UP.
WHOSE ARE YOU?
Everyone should answer~
"I AM GODS"
because
GOD is the CREATOR of ALL.
But what if you don't BELIEVE
that you are HIS?
Then WHOSE are you.
At a recent celebration of life,
the following words pierced my heart
like it was the first time I had heard them~
"GOD called HIS daughter home"
Think about it.
GOD called her into life when she was born.
And now her FATHER was calling her home.
Oh how that struck me
as I looked at her photo,
where you could see her heart shining through her eyes.
Her time had come
for her DADDY to call her home.
HOME is where we belong.
HOME is where REAL LIFE will begin again.
We live on borrowed time,
as GOD has lent us to this earth
to live for our specific number of days.
Does your life tell HIS STORY?
Do others know that you GOD'S CHILD?
Have you taken the step to not only be HIS CHILD,
but to be
ALL HIS?
WHOSE are you?
WHO are you LIVING for?
"This resurrection life you received from GOD
is not a timid, grave-tending life.
It’s adventurously expectant,
greeting GOD with a childlike
'What’s next, Papa?'
GOD'S SPIRIT touches our spirits and confirms
who we really are.
We know who HE is, and we know who we are:
FATHER and children.
And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us—
an unbelievable inheritance!
We go through exactly what CHRIST goes through.
If we go through the hard times with HIM, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with HIM!" (Romans 8:15-17).
The most important moment of your
LIFE
is the moment GOD calls you HOME,
even though we may not like thinking about
the when and the whats
it is going to require of us
to get us there.
But that moment will be the moment when our
REAL LIFE will begin.
Oh it will be a GLORIOUS MOMENT
for
THE BIBLE
will be sight.
Every WORD of it.
Everything PROMISED will be delivered,
because GOD always DELIVERS on HIS PROMISES.
So what do we do
from HERE TO ETERNITY?
We LIVE THE ABUNDANT LIFE IN THE HERE AND NOW~
"So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.
There’s far more here than meets the eye.
The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever" (2 Corinthians 14:6-18).
Oh LIVE IN YOUR GUARANTEED ETERNITY
IN THE HERE AND NOW
because
JESUS IS IN THE HERE AND NOW.
And for where
JESUS IS
there is
"JOY IN THE MORNING"
(listen to the song below)