Second Chance
July 28, 2009
My father-in-law was coming back from vacation when he had an aortic dissection. By Gods answers to many prayers – he has survived the condition and the surgery when the doctors were certain he wouldn’t. He has been given a second chance. More importantly so have I. I have been praying, ministering and serving to help out the family but its my faith that has been greatly touched. There are others in the hospital that didn’t make it. A second chance is not when we cheat death – its when we cheat life. We cheat life when we don’t take the opportunity to let someone know who Jesus is or what he’s done for us. We cheat life when we don’t love on people when its VERY CLEAR that God wants us to. We cheat life when we get so complacent that we have a job to earn a living, food on the table, a roof over our heads and family that love us. Why is it that we hate when people cheat man’s law but we love to cheat and rationalize when it comes to “Gods law”.
Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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