One of the most tragic things about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We dream of a better day, or I’ll be happy when I get a better job, or the kids are grown, or I pay off my house. It’s always in the future and it never comes. Or as Stephen Leacock says “the child says, ‘when I’m a big boy,” but what is that? The big boy says,’ when I grow up and then, grown-up he says, ‘when I get married but to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to when I’m able to retire!
And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed: a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.”
I love the words of Dante “That this day will never dawn again.” Life is slipping away with incredible speed. We are racing through space at the rate of nineteen miles per second. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. Is it any wonder that the Bible says “This is the day that the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
So whatever you’re going to do, do it now. Tomorrow never comes. There’s a bar in Ireland that has a sign outside that says. “Free drinks served tomorrow.” They’ve never given out a free drink. Live today, love today, give today your best!
I have let life pass me by, an not properly appreciating what I’ve got in the presence, so I pray an look to god an be grateful for the here an now, with his Devine love I’m able to enjoy today no matter what trials are in front of me, praise the lord amen 🙏🙏
Siempre es una bendición leer los devocionales del pastor Rob Carman, siempre traen un refrigerio a mi forma de pensar, que Dios bendiga su ministerio.
This is God’s way of showing us the temporal is always before us.
“Chasing the wind; seeking riches that will take wings and fly away; we are but a withering flower— but to live is Christ and to die is gain! Jesus Christ is our treasure! He that goes and sells everything, buys that lot! He will make your pinnacles of rubies and your gates as sparking jewels!” Pastor Rob preached us to live by the conviction of Gods Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, having a life in Christ. Praise God!
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