God’s purpose includes all the activities of man since He permit them to happen.
God is all in all, regardless.
Why not talk about it?
It’s 2024, a new year full of opportunities and advantages.
So, Why not talk to God about your aspirations and desires.
At least, give it a chance! Talk to Him about it.
Stop thinking about it; start talking to Him about it.
A life changing investment
Every time we make decisions and choices, it is an act of deciding our future and how it takes its shape.
Every reasonable decision has a life-changing impact that can turn out for good.
Good decisions make a good life and bad decisions make a bad life.
Each time we make decisions, it becomes an investment in our lives.
A good investment would likely result in a good life, and a bad investment results in a bad life.
For instance, investing in education can result in a (wide) variety of good things for an individual. Also, investment in your kids can give them a bright future, etc.
Decisions to commit your life to God can and should result in eternal life.
Thus, our decisions end up being the investment we make to have a meaningful life or a terrible one.
The decision to live a good life is a life-changing investment.
Live for eternity
1 John 2:17 ERV
[17] The world is passing away, and all the things that people want in the world are passing away. But whoever does what God wants will live forever.
No one ever born lives forever. Everyone dies at one point in time.
Either you die a natural cause, or through human activities or death kills you.
Yes, Everyone will die
So, why not live for eternity. Live like you own nothing here but owns everything in the life beyond.
If we understand what life is, we would make better decisions about how we live on earth.
Everything we run after will not go with us to the grave.
2 Peter 3:10-12 ERV
[10] But the day when the Lord comes again will surprise everyone like the coming of a thief. The sky will disappear with a loud noise. Everything in the sky will be destroyed with fire. And the earth and everything in it will be burned up. [11] Everything will be destroyed in this way. So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and devoted to God. [12] You should be looking forward to the day of God, wanting more than anything else for it to come soon. When it comes, the sky will be destroyed with fire, and everything in the sky will melt with heat.
Lost priority in a lost world
The devil is the prince of this world (John 14:30). So, to try out shining (become famous, popular, excessively materialistic) in his (devil) world is a lost priority and evidence of a punctured destiny.
This world is not our own, and it’s passing away with all that is in it.
The understanding of this should help us set our priorities right and stay focus amidst noises and turmoil that rages around us on daily basis.
Righteous life over moral life
We owe it to ourselves and to the public to live a moral life, but we must trust God to live a righteous life.
Moral life does not endear God. Righteous life does!
It is good to live a moral life, but this is necessary for making good impact in our world.
The life that makes everlasting impact and guarantees our access to God is a righteous life which is only possible through Jesus.
Lack of love
Jesus repeatedly emphasized how important it is to love the brethren and to love one another.
People will only seek their interest, and the Bible says in humility, consider others better than yourself.
We are told to condescend to the interest of others.
A selfish life thinks only about self and personal satisfaction, but a love life thinks about others and their well-being.
Conflicts from within
The war or evil from inside is the situation any believer faces when he has to contend with attacks and malign behaviors from fellow Christians.
War and Crisis
This month of October, 2023 saw an unprecedented but not surprising attack by Hamas of the Palestine on Israel.
I am of the opinion that wars and calamities will not stop soon.
According to Biblical prophecy, Israel will continue to face challenges from her surrounding nations.
Also, Jesus said that there will be wars and rumors of wars, it doesn’t mean the end of the world has come.
Don’t be confused, wars and natural disasters are signs that the end time is near, and not the end time.
The world in war crisis?
These times are dicey. Is it safe to say that the world is in a war crisis or on the edge of global war?
What does the prophecy say concerning Israel’s conflicts with neighboring nations?
I have been trying hard to search for any meaningful prophecy (if any) concerning Israel’s conflict with the Palestinian Hamas, simultaneously and dangerously involving the Middle Eastern nations.
Things look ugly, and one can only hope it could get better, but I think it might get worse before we realize what is happening before us.
We should be on guard and pray, too.
The prayer: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the enemy. We will not be subject to the evil that will befall the world, Amen!