March 11, 2024 … Carpe Diem …

March 11, 2024 … Carpe Diem …     

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from Stephanie Oguine singing … Seize The Day …  Poignantly singing of how we Christians must “seize the day” to live and serve the Lord with the time God has given us.  

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Highlight Passage: … Ecclesiastes 9:10 [NLT] … 

10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge .or wisdom.           

… Solomon charges mankind to take advantage of the time we have been given by God to live life for The Lord.               

Highlight Passage (in context): …  Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 … USE THIS LINK … 

… God teaches, thru Solomon, that man must do whatever we do to honor and worship our Creator God.                

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Reference Passage: …Isaiah 55:6 [NLT] …    

6 Seek the LORD while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near.  

… God, thru Moses, declares that it was our God Who created all we see around us.

Reference Passage: … Lamentations 3:22-23 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK …  

… Our God, thru Jeremiah, promises to be faithful with His mercies new every morning, providing what we need for life.    

Reference Passage: … Luke 19:26 [NLT] …   

26 “‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away..  

… Jesus teaches, with a parable, to use the time we’ve been given wisely to worship our God.       

Reference Passage: … Galatians 6:10 [NLT] …   

10 Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.  

… The Apostle Paul calls for fellow Christians to use the time God has given us to do good to/for others, especially fellow Christians. 

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 5:15-16 [NLT] …   USE THIS LINK ...  

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to take every opportunity in our lives to live for God in these evil days.   

Reference Passage: … Colossians 4:5 [NLT] …   

 5 Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity..   

… The Apostle Paul, once again, calls for fellow Christians to take the most of every opportunity in to worship God with the way we live.                                                     

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Sheridan Voysey -  AT THIS LINK -   tells of a friend, … Nicola, … who was faced with a diagnosis of terminal cancer and expressed feelings of failure in her life.  But her friends expressed that Nicola’s goodness and grace to others had made her life a refection of God’s grace.  

And if my readers today have reflected on the linked song and meditated on the Scriptures above, I would guess that you are - as I am right now - asking ourselves, “have I really seized my days to serve God with the time He ha given me?”  And if you have, we might “PTL” for what He has given us in our time, and with His Spirit-given gifts, to serve The Lord.  But if we recognize that we could do more for our God, NOW is the time to “seize the day” we’ve been given by God to worship our Lord and to serve God TODAY and TOMORROW.                  

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me today and maybe tomorrow to serve You with my life.     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to seize the day - today and perhaps tomorrow - to serve You, Lord, with the time You give us.   … Amen

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