Samuel D. High
sdhigh@aristotle.net
-----Original Message-----
From: "Apostle Tom" <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:45:50 -0500
To: pressingon@hotmail.com
Subject: Morning Manna (May 28); BP: II Cor. 6:1-10; RBTTY: Jn. 10:24-42; II Chron. 4-6
May 28 “Now’s the Time”
“. . .behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation.”
II Corinthians 6:2b
If there’s something you need to do, do it now.
Very few folks like “loose ends” or that feeling of not having
everything under control. Although there’ll always be items left on our “to
do list,” none of them should be eternal in nature; otherwise, we’ll always
have regrets while musing about “what might have been.”
Now, this doesn’t mean we’re to live a frantic life, afraid of not
doing everything we “ought” to do; however, it does mean we shouldn’t, as
someone said, “Sacrifice the important on the altar of the urgent.” So
true, so true.
Dear Pilgrim, there’s nothing more important in life than the things of
God. When He speaks, we should listen. And, where He sends, we should go;
yet, so many folks place Him far down on their list of priorities—and then
they wonder why everything’s falling apart.
Jesus meant what He said when He said “Seek first the Kingdom of God
and His righteousness—and all these things shall be added unto you” (Mt.
6:33). He didn’t mean when we “get around to it” or when we feel like it;
neither did He mean for us to place His will wherever we felt like it on our
list of priorities.
When He said, “Seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness,” He
meant just that: First! Not second or third or fourth, etc. First!
Numero Uno! At the top of the list. The “cream of the crop.” Our
Magnificent Obsession!
The same is true with today’s Manna. Paul’s inspired words should be
both heard and heeded: “NOW is the accepted (Grk. ‘dektos’—‘approved,
propitious, favorable, etc.’) time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation.”
Not tomorrow or the next day. . .next week . . .or next month. . .or next
year. He meant “Now!”
We know the Scriptures teach us to not “boast ourselves of tomorrow—for
none of us knows what a day will bring forth” (Prov. 27:1). Likewise, we
know our “lives are as a vapor that appears for a little while and then
vanishes away” (James 4:14).
“Now” is God’s “anointed adverb” that demands a decision from each one
of us. Hesitation or procrastination are unacceptable—especially when it
comes to eternal matters—for, as someone once said, “Good intentions pave
the road to hell.”
Therefore, like Jesus in the Temple that day as a young boy, so should
we “be about the Father’s business” (Lk. 2:49). We should never
compartmentalize our lives into “secular” and “sacred;” instead, we should
view all of life as a “sacred trust” and everywhere we go as “Holy Ground.”
May the Holy Spirit help us to live each moment in the “Now,” lest later on
we look back on our lives and say “I have no pleasure in them” (Eccl. 12:1).
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