Thursday, May 07, 2009

NOW


Hebrews 3:13-19 (The Message)


12-14 So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God. For as long as it's still God's Today, keep each other on your toes so sin doesn't slow down your reflexes. If we can only keep our grip on the sure thing we started out with, we're in this with Christ for the long haul.

These words keep ringing in our ears:

Today, please listen; don't turn a deaf ear as in the bitter uprising.

15-19 For who were the people who turned a deaf ear? Weren't they the very ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who was God provoked with for forty years? Wasn't it those who turned a deaf ear and ended up corpses in the wilderness? And when he swore that they'd never get where they were going, wasn't he talking to the ones who turned a deaf ear? They never got there because they never listened, never believed.


NOW is the fullness of time. NOW is an eternal concept, not a time concept. Every moment in the history of man is God′s NOW; also every moment in man′s future is God′s NOW! The moment the individual embraces His voice, the now of His eternal strategy begins to unfold.


Francois du Toit of Thoughts for Life (Daily Devotionals)

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