Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Tim McGraw singing Live Like You Were Dying ... poignantly singing of how we might live if we were faced with our ultimate mortality … living as if we were dying … which is how we all really need to live.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 25:13 [NKJV] ... 13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
... As disciples of Christ, we are to live wisely at all times, knowing that He could come again at anytime.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Matthew 25:1-13 [NKJV] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Jesus in the parable of wise/foolish virgins, warns His followers to live as if tomorrow were the day He would come again.
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Reference Passage : ... John 11:24-26 [NKJV] ... 25 Jesus said to her [Martha], “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
... Jesus tells Martha, after the death of her brother, Lazarus, that we can always know that He, our Lord, Jesus, is the resurrection and we can ALWAYS live today knowing that we will live with Him in eternity.
Reference Passage : …Luke 9:23 [NKJV] ... 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross]daily, and follow Me. … “
... The only way to live for tomorrow by following Christ today.
Reference Passage : ... Ephesians 5:15-16 [NKJV] ... 15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
... God, thru Paul, exhorts us to redeem our time wisely for God’s glory.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Mike Wittmer, uses the lyrics of a Country song to illustrate how we should be living, as Christians, today ... as if we had few tomorrows. … The ODB author wrote: I’m inspired by country singer Tim McGraw’s song “Live Like You Were Dying.” In it he describes some of the exciting “bucket list” things a man did after receiving some bad news about his health. He also chose to love and forgive people more freely—speaking to them more tenderly. The song recommends that we live well, as if knowing our lives will end soon.
This song reminds us that our time is limited. It’s important for us to not put off for tomorrow what we can do today, because one day we’ll run out of tomorrows.
What would you do today, if you seemingly had good health but knew that you might not have tomorrow? … Would you do things today that you had on a “bucket list?” [see photo] Would you do all you could to live today like you know that Jesus has always been calling you to live for Him.
Well, that’s what Jesus was saying to those who had been following Him in His days on earth, wasn’t He (see scriptures above)? And it’s certainly what Tim McGraw sings about in the linked song?
So, what’re we waiting for?
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for giving us the grace to live one more day for You.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here are searching to live today like we are Jesus’ bride, waiting for Him to come for us tomorrow. … Amen
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