Repost from "Question of the day" from Jesus.org
I read this and wanted to share, as I know I have found myself caught up in the daily routines of things that, while they may be important to survival, in the long term you need to ask yourself "what will I say about my life when I stand before God on Judgement Day"?.
FyI - Bema Seat is Greek for Judgement Seat
Here is the post:
Don't Waste Your Life?
John Barnett
You see, even under grace it does matter what you do with your life. Don't waste your life is the message of God to us. We need to be gripped by the reality that choices we make have consequences both now and for eternity.
Only our sins are forgiven and forever forgotten by God - wasted lives are not forgotten, rather they are remembered and dealt with by God at Christ's Bema Seat.
Martin Luther lived by a motto he often repeated:
"I have but two days in my calendar - Today, and the Day I stand before Christ."
Christ's coming simply reveals what people have been all the time. For us as believers, Paul tells us that when we stand before Christ "each man's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it" (1 Corinthians 3:13).
Remember, the One who has planned the End from the Beginning has told us what will happen in the days ahead, and this is His Plan for History.
Taken from "The Judgment of Believers" by Discover the Book Ministries (used by permission).
I read this and wanted to share, as I know I have found myself caught up in the daily routines of things that, while they may be important to survival, in the long term you need to ask yourself "what will I say about my life when I stand before God on Judgement Day"?.
FyI - Bema Seat is Greek for Judgement Seat
Here is the post:
Don't Waste Your Life?
John Barnett
You see, even under grace it does matter what you do with your life. Don't waste your life is the message of God to us. We need to be gripped by the reality that choices we make have consequences both now and for eternity.
Only our sins are forgiven and forever forgotten by God - wasted lives are not forgotten, rather they are remembered and dealt with by God at Christ's Bema Seat.
Martin Luther lived by a motto he often repeated:
"I have but two days in my calendar - Today, and the Day I stand before Christ."
Christ's coming simply reveals what people have been all the time. For us as believers, Paul tells us that when we stand before Christ "each man's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it" (1 Corinthians 3:13).
Remember, the One who has planned the End from the Beginning has told us what will happen in the days ahead, and this is His Plan for History.
Taken from "The Judgment of Believers" by Discover the Book Ministries (used by permission).
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