Thoughts for another day

Mar. 7, 2014.

Today's verse:  Jer. 13:17. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.  (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Many Christians around the world are observing Lent, the season to come closer to our wonderful God who gave Himself for us. I wonder what more He could have done for men so they realise how much He loves and cares for them; I guess not much for He has given us His most precious Son.  Besides, these are the last days and accounting time is nigh.  It’s incumbent upon the entire race of mankind on the face of the earth, Christian or other wise to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as remission for their sins and thus be secure for eternal life, for otherwise eternal damnation is for sure and the excruciating pain it carries is bound to come.

I speak to you my friend, a follower of Christ, to be aware that anytime now, it could be the last day.  Be not numbed by the lies of the devil thinking, well, many people have talked about the end of the world and it has never happened; but I tell you we’re that much closer and it’ll happen in the wink of an eye.  Repent and believe in the Gospel of the Holy God who has given us a way for salvation.  Be not like the Jews at the time of Jeremiah, cozy in their comfort zones thinking nothing could happen to them for weren’t they the chosen ones, the people ofthe living God.  And we know how terrible a time they went through.  Jeremiah wept in his soul for them feeling their pain and his own helplessness at their pride and stubbornness.

Today, I look at the swarm of humanity on the face of the earth, each busy doing this doing that, and I hear Christ say, Mt.24:38, 39, ‘For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.’ My heart is heavy to see the imminent destruction about to be wrought on earth and the intense tribulation to come as I hear Jesus say, Mt. 24:21, ‘For there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.’  Of course I am nowhere near the caliber of Jeremiah, yet, as a Christian endowed with the Great Commission, I’m bound to mourn for them who have not known Christ or not accepted Him.  Let us rise to the occasion and give it our best shot, both at personal repentance and also giving the Gospel to others.  Perhaps, many will change and join us in the marriage feast of the Lamb.