Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Tough Truth Tuesday- The Waiting Game Is a Dangerous One

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This week has started off as an emotional one. While I am praising the Lord for a new brother in Christ, I am remembering in prayer the family of a sister who has gone on to her reward. How comforting it is to know that sister is with our Maker at this time. What a blessing it is to be in Christ; to be called one of His children and to know that if we live a life faithful to His word, we can live eternally with him.

Too many people have thought about becoming one of God’s children, only to delay their decision. What is the danger in delaying becoming a Christian or carrying out your duties as a Christian?



1.    Opportunities cannot be recalled once they have been wasted. Felix and Agrippa wasted opportunities (Acts 24 & 26). We cannot afford to turn a deaf ear toward an opportunity to teach, help, or even listen to someone. Sure, another opportunity may come along, but that one is forever gone.

2.   We are not promised tomorrow (Jam. 4:14; Prov. 27:1). The rich farmer found this out only after it was too late (Luke 12).

3.   The longer you procrastinate, the less it bothers you and the more hardened your conscience becomes. Those in Ephesus were “past feeling” (Eph. 4:19).  Paul wrote to Timothy, that there were those whose conscience was “seared with a hot iron” (1 Tim. 4:2).

4.   The example you will leave behind. In Luke 16, the rich man in torment pleaded with the Lord to send Lazarus to warn his brothers not to follow his example, lest they spend eternity in torment as well. The excuse of, “But if I become a Christian, then I am condemning my father/mother” is a worthless one.



“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”

James 4:14