Encouraging Words of Today - Listen to Him!

 
I gave her time to repent...and she did not repent. Revelation 2:21
Paul told the church at Ephesus, '...I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you...' 


(Acts 20:20 NIV). A surgeon saves your life by cutting out what threatens you, and God's Word does that with us. One of Christ's warnings to the church at Thyatira was: 'I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds' (Revelation 2:21-22 NKJV).

When you are heading over a cliff's edge, someone who truly loves you will try to stop you. And nobody loves you like the Lord! But you cannot keep ignoring His warnings. The Prodigal Son's father welcomed him back home, but he still lost his family inheritance. Every day you live, you put another building block in place. What are you building?

One day you will stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Paul describes it: '...the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames' (1Corinthians 3:13-15 NIV). Your friends may think your disobedience is no big deal. But God, who knows the extent of your ultimate loss, will 'get in your face' and tell you to repent while you still have time. Today, if He is speaking to you about a certain issue, listen to Him! Obey Him!