SUBJECT: LIVE IN THE NOW
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 ~ Message
After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that’s about it. That’s the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work. It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.
- Right Now is the best time of your life no matter what age you are.
- God deals out joy in the present; the now.
- Sometimes the enemy won’t let us live in the now.
Psalms 59:1 ~ King James the 1st part says; Deliver me from my enemies, O God;
- We can be our own worst enemy. Stuck on woulda, coulda, shoulda, I’m gonna.
- Sometimes we can’t see the forest for the trees. We can’t see the big picture because we’re focused on the little things.
LIVE IN THE NOW
I’ve Got a roof of my head.
I’ve got water and lights.
I’ve got air conditioning and heat.
We’ve got so much little stuff to be thankful for; but the little stuff isn’t enough. Let a storm hit and lose power then we realize how much the little things mean to us.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 ~ Message reads: God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it.
I was speaking with someone that said they wanted to be a baker. He said he had a gift from God; and he told me your if will make room for you.
We need to be reminded that just because you have a gift doesn’t mean it’s how you’re going to make a living. Sometimes gifts are to enhance your life. Gift or not because you didn’t move when HE told you to you’ve to work twice as hard.
I’m in my 50s; not in my 20s and I would have to work a lot harder to do what God showed me I could do in my 20s and I don’t know if I could put in all the work to make it happen.
The song is true; What God has for me it is for me and it will always be true until you go after what HE has for you. I use to be a go getter. USE to be. But I’m older now and I’m maintaining.
Philippians 4:8 ~ King James reads: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
God deals out JOY in the present, the now.Now: you don’t have to wait God is saying:
You can have JOY – Now!
You can have SATISFACTION – Now!
You can have HAPPINESS, LOVE, and PEACE OF MIND Now!
Why wait? LIVE IN THE NOW!
ENJOY LIFE NOW! Amen