Satan doesn't try to convince people that
There's no Heaven
or that
There's no Hell
He doesn't try to sell what he knows most won't buy.
The most effective lie that Satan feeds this world is that
There's no Hurry.
Are we investing in a life or a legacy?
There's no Heaven
or that
There's no Hell
He doesn't try to sell what he knows most won't buy.
The most effective lie that Satan feeds this world is that
There's no Hurry.
Are we investing in a life or a legacy?
Priorities are often assigned by due dates, with the most immediate being the most urgent. Physical needs like food and shelter are omnipresent as we are quick to recognize shortage and divert resources accordingly. We feel the lack of adequate rest, but create schedules that prevent it. Even time with our children has an approximate window of opportunity based upon their age. However, this need appears more flexible because this date appears quite distant, until nearly upon us. Caring for ourselves fairs even worse as due date and effect are far less tangible. While acknowledging its existence, our own expiration date is unknown and therefore seems the most distant of all. This pattern forms a relentless cycle as the items with the shortest due dates also have the shortest duration. If we focus on the urgent, we create a life rather than a legacy, as while the urgent passes away, the important passes on. Investing beyond ourselves, in faith and family, provides our only opportunity to leave an eternal legacy.
For many, faith is based on likes and preferences. God laid out his requirements in detail in his word. He gave each the right to choose, but choices have consequences. When your beliefs are measured against his word, how certain are you?
Eternity is a long time to be wrong.
Eternity is a long time to be wrong.
Personal beliefs are being substituted for absolute standards in order to justify conduct that fails to meet the minimum expectations of a civilized society. When the acceptability of an action is subject to each situation and individual, rather than any minimal code, we don't remove barriers. We remove the foundations that support all human relationships. While highly corrosive to society, this rationale has eternal consequences when applied to God.
Defining God's law by one's personal beliefs is like trying to fly by denying the law of gravity. If two people step off a roof, one who believes in gravity, and one who doesn't, do these individual beliefs alter their individual impact? The authority of God's law is not based upon belief therein, but upon the source thereof. Denial doesn't change the law, merely the landing. We cannot alter the absolute standards of God's law any more than we can alter the laws of physics.
Defining God's law by one's personal beliefs is like trying to fly by denying the law of gravity. If two people step off a roof, one who believes in gravity, and one who doesn't, do these individual beliefs alter their individual impact? The authority of God's law is not based upon belief therein, but upon the source thereof. Denial doesn't change the law, merely the landing. We cannot alter the absolute standards of God's law any more than we can alter the laws of physics.
Some things are absolute, and God is foremost among them.