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What is Life?

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I was watching a young Mum with her newborn baby the other day, and got to thinking how this little life is there for ever. Everything that the child will grow into is already in place except its attitudes, and these are up to the parents to teach and show as the child develops. What an awesome responsibility, and one that so many people take so lightly!

    Life has a beginning at conception and then grows as the child is born and takes its first breath. This life does not end at death, it just begins! What we have been on earth lays the foundation for what we will be in the next life…just as Jesus said, “What we bind on earth will be bound in heaven.”(Matthew 18:18)

 This life is just the beginning of eternity. Every baby that takes a breath exists for ever, for eternity….life on earth is just a dot, and what we do with it is up to us! It is crucial in the extreme, and is something that must not be pushed to one side…we have no option but to examine the matter thoroughly if we would be true to ourselves. Our eternal destiny depends on it.

    We went to a friend’s funeral service the other day, and those who were Christians were rejoicing in the fact that we will see him again one day and that there is an eternal confidence of  this. Those of his relatives who did not know the Lord had no such confidence…for them he was gone for ever. They wanted to think that he was finished, ended, and that the same fate would one day be theirs, but this is not what the Bible teaches.

Death is not the end for any human being, it is only the beginning of eternity, an eternity to be spent either with God in His presence or an eternity without Him in the depths of despair, and we have the answer to this in our hands. As one Old Testament leader said to his ;people….”Choose this day who you will serve…whether the gods of the nations around you, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15)

Jesus said….”I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly!”  ( John 10:10)  and…

“This is life eternal…that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ  Who You sent.” (John 17:3)

Morning Musings

Choices, Choices

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    We all have to make choices in life; whether it is business, family life or just in playing games. Our choice today, determines our destiny tomorrow.  I was reading recently, “Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

As I read these verses from Matthew 7:13-14, it made me realise that every person is confronted with the gates of choices in their life. One gate is wide and the way looks easy with crowds of people going along in a downward direction, while the other gate is small, with a narrow path beyond leading upwards and not many people going that way. But what a difference the end result is! One leads to destruction and the other one leads to life.

Our Lord tells people to seek to enter the narrow gate leading to life but this gate is too narrow to allow any baggage through. There is no room for the suitcase of possessions or the bag of good works. There is not even space to squeeze through with the backpack of pride, to say nothing of towing in the trolley of sinful ways and habits! All these have to be left on the outside of the narrow gate….there is only room for the under clothing of contrition and a broken spirit with confession of our need. All our good deeds and self righteousnesses are nothing more than filthy rags in God’s sight!

Once through the gate, the Lord provides clothes of righteousness and a robe of salvation. He gives us new songs to sing, and peace of mind with a light and joyful heart to travel up the path of life. When trials and difficulties come (and they will) He is there to help and to take us by the hand, telling us that His grace is more than enough to see us through. There really is no option as to which choice is the better one of the two….let’s make sure we all find this way that leads to unending life and peace with the Maker of the Universe.