Let’s Talk About The Urgency of Now

Let's talk about the urgency of now....

Long before Barack Obama or even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about the urgency of now it was spoken of by God, the urgency of now is to choose ye this day whom you will serve.... this day not tomorrow or next week not even one minute or second can you spare. The urgency of now means the present choice that you have before you to chose life or death, God or yourself , God or this world, God or your life. In Matthew 16:25 Jesus says "For whoever will save his life will lose it and whoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it." In Joshua 24:14-16 God through Joshua cautions the Israelites to Fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and truth and to put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood and in Egypt and serve the Lord. He admonishes them to make a choice that we all must make,every human being in the past, present and future must make that very same choice; to choose to serve God or to choose to serve the gods of your ancestors, gods of pride and esteeming your self higher than God, gods of selfish ambition and lust and degradation, gods of higher and higher and loftier and loftier ambitions and goals that leave your Creator out of the equation. Seeking after any and everythng but the one who made you, the true Most High the God of the bible.

Real change comes from the God given indwelling of the Holy Spirit, it is the only change that you can believe in. Change in your educational status, change in your social status change in your financial status these changes are all fine and well but if we are not carfeul they can camaflouge the only change that matters in this life and the one to come. The change I speak of is coming from darkness to light from blindness to sight, from the reality that Jesus died on a tree over 2000 years ago for you and for me. And the change that brings about comes from the inside out. What good are all the things of the world if you lose your very soul. What good is Ph.d if inside you are still a liar and a thief and an adulterer at heart when you are wise in the ways of the world but when it comes to God you are not so smart. What good is the house on the hill and all it's furnishings if tonight your very soul is required of you. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2012:16-21;&version=9;;

The real urgency that is masked behind the political machine, the corporate machine, the rap machine, the culture machine, the entertainment machine and all these machines, is quite simply this: where do you stand before God and more importantly where will you stand on that day? Your best life now may very well be your best life right now. Now let me tell you why that thought should horrify you, should frighten you, should sober you. It’s because if you don’t live on the promises of the bible you really do believe such as the false prophets do that the buck stops here, you believe it stops with public policy and fair housing and your white picket fence, you believe it stops with your bling and your lifestyles of the rich and shameless, excuse me, famous. But if you stand on the promises of God Almighty you believe that storing up your treasures on earth is futile that there is an even greater reward for you eternally and that reward is something that all the money in the world could not buy, that reward is simply and awesomely dwelling in the eternal presence of God. It's where you come to the conclusion that His presents are no longer as important as His Presence.

If you believe that this is truly your best life right here and now and you don’t think you have anything to look forward to eternally I’ll tell you, you are both right and wrong at the same time. You are right in that this will be the highest and most satisfactory life experience you will have but the one that follows will in turn be your worst life eternally... for you will forever be away from the presence of God. You will however have something of His and that will be the everlasting pouring out of His wrath towards you. If you did not have time for Him and His kingdom while you are on earth then you certainly will not have time for Him,then.

Sobering words aren’t they? Well I’ll tell you they certainly were for me. Don’t get me wrong there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting you and your family to experience a “good life” I’m just trying to tell you, correction, God is trying to tell you that you haven’t seen anything yet take a look at 1 Corinthians 2:7-10 (KJV)7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. The bible also says in Matthew 6:19-21 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust do corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
So ask yourself where is your heart and then where is your confidence? Is you confidence in man or in God?

Listen, if you love Him, which means to obey him, to keep his commands then all the beauty of this world the diamonds the rubies the flat screens the cars they all pale in comparison. We must remember that man can never outdo God, for it was God who made us and not we ourselves.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=23&chapter=100&verse=2&end_verse=4&version=9&context=context
It then stands to reason that if the Creator’s creation can create such things then what else must the Creator be able to create, get it, I hope so. We finally should remember the we honor and worship God first and foremost because of who He is, not just for what he can give us or do for us or bless us with. We worship and honor God simply for who he is and how do we know who he is by reading His word, by examining the fruition and manifestation of His word in Jesus Christ and then looking at the sacrifice the ultimate sacrifice, no greater love. This love requires a response and it must be made now!!!!


God Bless