FIRST ENERGY…I have noticed a trend in scripture that we give ourselves to God’s works first. Perhaps its because He knows human nature, and the potential that we won’t get around to His stuff after we get absorbed in ours. But then again I think there is a deeper reason. There is a ‘reordering’ of many things in our life when we do His bidding first…with our waking energy…with our early strength. Look at this verse…
“Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth…!” ~Eccl. 12:1
The principle of giving ourselves to His cause when we significant strength to do so is of more than passing importance. There is something great that gets planted into our futures when we give Christ our FIRST ENERGY! Its just a Divine fact! ~verlon
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“People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.”
ReplyDeleteDouglas MacArthur quotes (American General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, 1880-1964)
Agreed...Interest in God first keeps you young at heart too or you do just fade away....
However, it is getting harder to find my car keys as I age..Better to be of a good heart and Laugh about it...Than to just to be old and sin-acle...Eccl 12:7 "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:and the spirit return unto God that gave it."
Look at bright side. As we age we get closer to God.....