02/08/17 BUT YOU'RE DEAD

02/08/17 BUT YOU'RE DEAD
Some people do not tell a loved one that the doctor gives no hope for that loved one to survive their battle with cancer. They are afraid that the loved one will not be able to face the tragic news.

However, I face a different situation. I know that there are loved ones and friends who are "eaten up" with sin, facing total and irretrievable loss. I tell them their condition and try to persuade them to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. But instead of acknowledging their own rebellion and lost condition, they become angry, argumentative, distant, resistant.

Our society is suffering an upheaval of family and church division. Satan has gotten hold of hearts and minds and lives and families, which have enjoyed the love, beauty, kindness, grace and blessing of God but now torn to shreds.

Pride and exaggerated desire were the original wedges that separated between God and the first family, and these two sins are still separating between God and men and between family members.

I can't say it LOUD or LONG enough,
* TURN to Christ.
* TURN from self pleasing.
* TRUST and FOLLOW Christ and His way.
* HUMBLE yourself.
* EMBRACE leadership and fellowship.

There is no time to waste, no time to delay, no time to lose.

Broken relationships, broken families, broken churches can be restored when people turn back to Biblical discipleship. God will redeem the worst of situations if the parties involved will die to self and allow Divine love to fill them.