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What Is Life? Tender Mercies, Try Again.
Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Feb 13, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: It is so easy to be so highly opinionated and judgmental that we miss the value of a soul. Someone needs a second chance. If I err, may I err to the side of mercy and grace,
WHAT IS LIFE? TENDER MERCIES?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
Luke 13:8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
ARISTOTLE WAS A GREAT TEACHER BEFORE JESUS… HE TAUGHT THE GREAT TEACHERS OF HIS DAY TO VALUE QUESTIONS…
My Dad taught me as a child the value of a question. Dad told me: Many will come to you very opinionated and want to trick you into an argument. Dad said in the Bible Jesus would be asked a difficult question and Jesus would answer with a question. This lesson has been a powerful tool to me. Someone would ask a “trap question” and demand an answer. The lesson dad taught has saved me much grief. Answer the question: “WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK?” My friend it has worked for me many times.
GOD’S WORD HAS MANY QUESTIONS… A GREAT QUESTION IS FOUND IN THE BOOK OF JAMES… “FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” WOW, PONDER THAT QUESTION: WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” THAT QUESTION IS A BIG STEAK ON WHICH TO CHEW?
James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
We may seem very smart? But get real, we don't have today figured out. What makes us think we know how to handle tomorrow today? We don’t know what the next call holds. FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?
1. LIFE AT BEST IS VERY BRIEF.
2. LIFE IS BRIEF BUT WE NEED TO LEARN LIFE IS SO FRAGILE.
3. YOU HAVE TWO APPOINTMENTS SET: DEATH AND THE JUDGMENT. As sure as you are born you are going to die. Adam lived, he died. Eve lived, she died. Abel lived and he died. Abraham lived and he died. Isaac lived and he died. Methuselah lived 969 years --- and he died. Abraham Lincoln lived, HE DIED, over his grave is written: HE BELONGS TO THE AGES. My friend, no matter what the TV preachers say: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.
4. I have heard a TV Preacher say: he picks the day he will die. He and his wife will be sitting on their front porch in rocking chairs and they will die at the same time… GET REAL? You do not know the time, the date or the hour you will die.
5. THE SECRET IS SIMPLE… LIVE EVERYDAY AS IF IT IS YOUR LAST. BE READY! You can’t live like a devil and die like a saint. Death is sure, yet death is very uncertain. BE READY, BE PREPARED… WHAT IS LIFE?
WHAT IS LIFE? I HAVE ASKED A MILLION TIMES TELL ME THE BENEFITS OF FEAR, WORRY AND NEGATIVITY? WHAT IS LIFE? WHY CAN’T WE SEE…THE TRAPS OF FEAR AND NEGATIVITY … HUMANS ARE THE ONLY VARMINT THAT BUILDS HIS OWN TRAP, SETS IT AND THEN BAITS IT… THEN STICKS HIS HEAD IN IT? IF WE LISTEN TO GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S WORD FAITH WILL GROW. What is life?
IF WE REALLY TRUST GOD BY FAITH, THEN WHY WOULD WE DOUBT AND DEMAND OF GOD, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE YOU DOING? EXPLAIN THIS TO ME RIGHT NOW, GOD! Eve was isolated from Adam and God when she started listening to the negative lies of the enemy. EVE LISTENED and the trap of fear and negativity was set. THE BIRTH OF FEAR WAS SELF-INFLICTED AND SELF FED… God walked with them daily. Why fear now?
Genesis 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
WHAT IS LIFE? IF WE BUILD ON A FIRM FOUNDATION OF FAITH AND THE WORD --- IF YOU ARE ANEMIC IN THE WORD, YOU WILL BE ANEMIC AND LIVE IN FEAR, WORRY, DEPRESSION AND NEGATIVITY.
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
You cannot overcome fear and negativity by human reasoning. You must overwhelm fear and negativity by FAITH AND TRUSTING THE WORD OF GOD.
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
WHAT IS LIFE? A CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A PLACE TO SHOW GOD’S STUFF. GOD CAN AND WILL HANDLE THIS!
HOW CAN YOU SINK THROUGH A SOLID ROCK… THE ANSWER TO WHAT IS LIFE MIGHT BE FOUND IN IF I KNOW THE WORD OF GOD AND IF I BELIEVE HIS WORD BY FAITH… A FIRM FOUNDATION?
