Monday, November 24, 2014

The Commendation of A Rogue (Lu. 16:1-9) (Part 4)

OBSERVATIONS:

It is in the nature of people to protect their interests and propagate their future.  To be human is to be interested obsessively in self-preservation.  You labor to preserve your career, your money, your possessions, your reputation and your legacy.  What have you done to preserve your soul?

There is nothing like a sense of urgency to motivate you.  The gig is almost over, your life is getting shorter, and your opportunities are getting fewer.  Jesus, the Owner of it all (Psa. 24:1), could come at any time to demand an account from you.  Consider it your spiritual audit.  Every second you postpone the decision to surrender to Jesus, you are playing time roulette with your soul.  Knowing you could die at any time, why do you wait?  You don't honestly believe you have all the time in the world, do you?  Come on, you've attended too many funerals to believe you're exempt from death.

To successfully manage your greatest assignment – your spiritual life – you must have a “do whatever it takes” mindset, so long as “whatever it takes” isn't illegal, immoral or un-biblical. Serving Jesus requires attention, diligence and consistency.  Serving Jesus is a surrender and not an experiment, a consumption and not a flirtation, a passion and not a diversion, a lifestyle and not a decision only.

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