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Eternal Thoughts
by Kristenea M. LaVelle (Kristenea's bio)
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1 Peter 5:6-7
Take just a moment and evaluate your life with this criteria:
1. Have you built your life around God and His will for you, Or
2. Is God just a thing you do if you have the time and if you can fit Him in?
How often do you set God aside for other things? Do you schedule your life around God (such as, church, ministry, worship, prayer and personal time) or has it become a habit to allow "other" things to take the place of God in your life?
Beloved, it is so important not to miss out on the things that God has in store for you. Often times, we forget to take into account the "Big Picture" of how God works in us and through us. Remember, the things of God always have an eternal significance. Everything God does effects eternity in some way. He is not confined to time and space, rather He is concerned with the eternal destination of every soul on earth and He wants to use each of us to reach those souls. If we pass up His calling, or do not take God seriously, then our choices have effected eternity in some way. Perhaps the very concept of how we relate to eternity is elusive. To clarify, consider for a moment the following testimony:
"I was leading a session at a national conference center and was sharing about the fear of God and the seriousness of not taking God seriously. I had stated that the loss of the fear of God creates a loss of the fear of sin. When we loose the fear of sin, we can live in rebellion against God and seemingly have no conscience about it. While I was speaking, a man ran to the front of the auditorium, fell on his knees, and began to sob, with loud cries. I spoke to him later. He said that while I was speaking, God reminded him that many years before God had called him to be an evangelist. He had rejected God's call. He said that God began to show him the many people who were in hell because he had refused God's call." *
We must always remember that the choices we make in our Christian walk don't just effect us, but all those that God wants to reach through our obedience. If we choose to play around with sin, and to be rebellious to God, then we have made choices that will not only effect our personal relationship with God, but countless others as well. Perhaps their eternal destination will be in jeopardy as a result of "our choice" to be disobedient.
We must train ourselves to look at the eternal consequences of our choices, because each of the choices we face can have some devastating consequences. It is always the right choice to be obedient to God.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
by: Henry T. Blackaby & Kerry L. Skinner
Copyright 2002, Kristenea M. LaVelle. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission.
| About Kristenea M. LaVelle: I am a wife of 10 years and a homeschooling mother of five dedicated to teaching and living the truth of Jesus Christ. David and I make our home in Spokane, Washington where we can serve our family and friends with the love of Christ. It was through His direction that I began writing and found myself on a fascinating new journey in life. Now my joy is made complete by writing for Him and about Him. E-mail Kristenea |
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