The
time is extremely short.
Use
all the spiritual shortcuts you know to be
ready.
Here's
one:
"Behold, what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be called the sons of God:
therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew him not.
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and
it doth not yet appear what we shall be:
but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he is.
"And every man that hath this
hope in him purifieth himself, even as
he is pure."
1 John
3:1-3 KJV
Keep
looking up!
Oh
yeah, don't feel bad being young, thinking
your rewards will be few.
Be
sure to read the following:
The Parable of
the Workers in the Vineyard
1“For the
kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who
went out early in the morning to hire men
to work in his vineyard. 2He agreed to
pay them a denarius for the day and sent
them into his vineyard.
3“About the
third hour he went out and saw others
standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
4He told them,
‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and
I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5So they went.
“He went out
again about the sixth hour and the ninth
hour and did the same thing. 6About the
eleventh hour he went out and found still
others standing around. He asked them,
‘Why have you been standing here all day
long doing nothing?’
7“‘Because no
one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to
them, ‘You also go and work in my
vineyard.’
8“When evening
came, the owner of the vineyard said to
his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay
them their wages, beginning with the last
ones hired and going on to the first.’
9“The workers
who were hired about the eleventh hour
came and each received a denarius. 10So when those
came who were hired first, they expected
to receive more. But each one of them also
received a denarius. 11When they
received it, they began to grumble against
the landowner. 12‘These men who
were hired last worked only one hour,’
they said, ‘and you have made them equal
to us who have borne the burden of the
work and the heat of the day.’
13“But he answered one of
them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to
you. Didn’t you agree to work for a
denarius? 14Take your pay and go. I
want to give the man who was hired last
the same as I gave you. 15Don’t I
have the right to do what I want with
my own money? Or are you envious
because I am generous?’
16“So the last will
be first, and the first will be last.”
Take
heart! Jesus knows you love Him, and
would do anything for Him!
As it
is, what you've done deserves a denarius.
I
said prophetically to a Bible study group
in 1985, that the LORD is constrained to
grow each one of us to be like His Son.
You've
heard of Romans 8:28, but have you ever
stopped to read Romans 8:29?
"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate
[to be] conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren."
Romans
8:29 KJV
It is
written,
"25For
husbands, this means love your wives,
just as Christ loved the church. He gave
up his life for her 26to make her
holy and clean, washed by the cleansing
of God’s word.b
27He did this
to present her to himself as a glorious
church without a spot or wrinkle or any
other blemish. Instead, she will be holy
and without fault."
Ephesians
5:25-27 NLT
Again,
I say, take
heart! Your growth in
Christ is administered wholly and
completely by God.
It is
written,
"Now all glory to God, who is able to
keep you from falling away and will
bring you with great joy into his
glorious presence without a single
fault."
Jude 1:24
Here it
is, y'all.
You are in a relay race, formed of
generations of believers. The finish
line is just within sight. You are running
the last leg, commonly called the
anchor leg. You
are Carl
Lewis, Evelyn
Ashford, Phil Brown,
or Pam Marshall!
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed
about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset [us], and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us,
"Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set
down at the right hand of the throne of
God."
Hebrews
12:1-2 KJV
The
time is short, but you have enough
time to do what you need to do.
Finally,
"You saw me before I was born. Every day
of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a
single day had passed."
Psalm
139:16
No
worries!
Baruch
HaShem Yeshua Ha Mashiach,
Mike
C.