Do you know Him?
When on earth I’m done, I want my life to be finished well. 1 Done really well. Lived well. You know what I mean?
I see so many lives ending like an unfinished job: loose ends, unfinished business, ruined by time. Broken pieces never mended. A “piece of work MirWebster: “a complicated, difficult, or eccentric person“. Got pieces of your past that cry out?
“I should have put it back together.”
“I should have said, ‘I’m sorry.’“
“I could’a would’a should’a … but never got around to it.”
Some lives are like an abandoned construction site… piles of stuff. Bits and pieces strewn around, ugly windows gaping holes where glass should swing so nicely, doors ajar – never closing. Untried dreams in every corner weeping, left undone, abandoned, never fulfilled.
Job well-done: UCLA students resist Pro Palestine acts May1.2024.
Like a job well done
Life should go down like a job well done. Go down with a shout of Hallelujah!
When a project is just waiting there — not done, not ready, so incomplete… it’s such a loss. Alone, abandoned, unrequitedMirWebster, no returns, unprofitable, so little well-done.
It was a losing proposition… the ruin of a life left undone. But when the project, however small, gets finished — now THAT’s what I’m talkin’ bout.
Still living in a loop hole? Or are you living it to the max – with eternal values in view?
I refuse to live a useless life (1 Peter 1:13-18). You know what I mean. A “wood, hay, and stubble” life (Stubble: 1 Corinthians 3:12 King James Version).
– Source: Your useless way of life
1 Corinthians 9:27 2
Amplified version: 27 But [like a boxer] I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached [the gospel] to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified [as unfit for service].
My life? How’s it doing?
I’ve put my hope and faith, love and interest… in that God! The One who made it all. Creator Jesus.
Says the Bible: He made me, loved me, gave me a future, way long before the earth was formed.
Jesus was foreknown before His birth – and even before the foundation of the world:
1 Peter 1:20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you
Believers were foreknown before their birth – and even before the foundation of the world:
God cares about us. He has a plan. It is His plan of immortality. His salvation is beyond huge, and we are a part of it!
He has made known to us all – what is what. We know what is good and what is not good (Micah 6:8), what to flee from (2 Timothy 2:22) and what to go after “with all I am” 100% (Being 100% given-over to Jesus).
It behooves me, now having accepted Christ, to “guard against loosing it”, maintain a well-guarded soul, live a worthy life.
Christians must live wary of the enemies of our soul. Like Israeli Jews surrounded by death-dealing neighbors, Christians are surrounded by spiritual forces that seek to destroy and leave us in ruin. We must keep our guard up. Be alert.
Israeli Noah Efron – blogger with Times of Israel
I found this post by Israeli Noah Efron. 3 In his post, In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli (May 27, 2024), Efron quotes Moshe Dayan.
Speaking about the Jews of his day Moshe Dayan observed,
“Let us not avert our eyes lest our arms weaken. This is the fate of our generation. This is our life’s choice – to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down….” – Moshe Dayan| In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli | Noah Efron | The Blogs at timesofisrael. 4
Be an inconvenient Christian! Be sold-out 100% to Jesus. Strive to be inconvenient to the Enemy.
Be alert.
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What am I about?
I am about doing God’s pleasure, living for Him. When I die and my body’s put away to dust, I’ll be ready, true to the end. How ’bout you?
1 Peter 5:8
8 Be sober [well balanced and self-disciplined], be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion [fiercely hungry], seeking someone to devour.
“This is our life’s choice – to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.” – Moshe Dayan
“This is a day
that the Lord has made.
I will sing out, rejoice!
I’ll be glad in it.”
– Adapted from This Is The Day (Lyrics)
FOR MORE:
Revelation 12:7-12
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives to the death.
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
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The tragic error many live in all their life
Beliefs “deserving full acceptance and approval”
Holding to beliefs “deserving full acceptance and approval”
Will you be turned away by Jesus?
Why might many Charismatics not be saved
Extrapolations and quotes from King Solomon in Proverbs 8
The progressive nature of evilness
More than conquerors – in Christ
Living the good life – with courage and confident hope
In Christ I am a strong person
At your wit’s end Excerpt:
Are you at your wit’s end these days, with all that life is throwing at you now? Are you at the end of your wit?
Well, that’s not hard to do. It’s a quick place to land. I know, my wit’s not long. And I reach my wit’s end quite quickly. How ’bout you?
Usually, quicker than a nitwit, I turn to the Lord, and He hears me. I ask Him to deliver me from all my fears. I’m not a fearful type, but I fear: pain, loss, loneliness, a painful death…. How ’bout you? Do you admit to the Lord what you fear? Do you ask Him to deliver you?
Psalm 34:4
I sought the Lord
[on the authority of His word],
and He answered me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
Keeping sin AND getting God’s holiness also
As if your mindset is protected by God
Curses, evil spells, and being jinxed
Dancing with doctrines of demons
Those who dwell in the heavens
What will it be for you? …The Sure Deal. We have a decision to make here. We have a sure deal for us – just down the road a ways. No way you’ll miss it.
In death as in life, Yael Dayan is an inconvenient Israeli | Noah Efron | The Blogs at timesofisrael | May 27, 2024.
Be an inconvenient Christian!
How then should we live now… believing the Rapture is just around the corner?
What is good and what is not Micah 6:8
Believing eyewitness witnesses
Evidence for all Jews and Goy that the Messiah came to earth
So, God sent His Son into the world. Do you know why?
The one-off offer Jesus makes to everyone
God as man – the short version
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners – no exception
About past sins and being forgiven now
What a wild and woolly rollercoaster ride we are on
The Overcoming Faith of Christ Followers
Be the one who endures and overcomes
What God has going on with us here on this planet
When I reconcile with God everything changes!
In Christ I am a strong person
The Bible is the standard for Christian thought and practice. Not me. Not you.
Be cautious and active in faith
Is yours a sound doctrine that Jesus will approve?
The Great Water Down of Jesus’ Message to us all
“I’m an ‘idolhater‘, not an idolater.”
Accepting Jesus – Plus Some Other
The Chutzpah of Wannabe Christians
What following Christ is NOT Excerpt: Are you confused about what it takes to get to God’s Home Heaven? Do you know The Door to Heaven?
Imagine you the perfect person
Your spiritual journey to eternal life
Being 100% given-over to Jesus
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and [voluntarily] [a]gave up His spirit.
– John 19:30
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BibleGateway Footnotes
Living Bible version: 27 Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to. Otherwise I fear that after enlisting others for the race, I myself might be declared unfit and ordered to stand aside.
“Yael Dayan was the daughter of the most renowned and revered general Israel ever had, who oversaw, first as IDF chief of staff and then as minister of defense, three wars that gave shape, for better and for worse, to everything that has followed: the 1956 Sinai Campaign, the 1967 Six Day War, and the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.”
“Moshe Dayan was a hero who, when eulogizing a young man murdered by Gazans who captured him in the field of his kibbutz and dragged his corpse back with them over the border, famously said:
We are a generation that settles the land and without the steel helmet and the cannon’s maw, we will not be able to plant a tree and build a house…Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who live around us and are waiting for the moment when their hands may claim our blood.
Let us not avert our eyes lest our arms weaken. This is the fate of our generation. This is our life’s choice – to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.”
Every once in a while, I must confirm why Jesus will accept me. I love to ask others: Why will Jesus accept you into His Holy Kingdom? What’s your answer to that?
What do you produce with your life? Are you still growing? Still learning?
What types of love exist? We find them in the Greek language and in the New Testament. Very varied loves!
What on earth are you doing with your eternal soul? Producing anything lasting?
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