CONSIDER JESUS

Baca:

"You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God." 1 Timothy 3:1-4 NLT

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Bacaan tahunan: GAL. 1-3

Thoughts for Today

Notice the last phrase of today's scripture. Included in this list of many terrible things that will happen in the last days is that people will love pleasure rather than God. Looking around us, it doesn't take long to see people looking at success, popularity, and good times as their source of happiness and well-being. People loving pleasure instead of God.
 
We each need to examine our own life. Perhaps our pursuits of pleasure involve wholesome, positive activity, but that activity is taking control of our life. The time it takes is interfering with our family time or our times alone with God. Or perhaps the activity or relationship that gives us pleasure isn't so wholesome or positive. And it's building a wedge between us and our Lord. Between us and others we care about.
 
Consider this ...

When the pursuit of pleasure is taking control of our lives, it's time to step back and consider what is important to us. To consider Jesus and his desire for us. To consider his love for us.
 
Jesus came so we could enjoy life-abundantly. But that will only happen when we follow him and put him first in our life.

I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture. The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).
John 10:9-10 AMP

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