This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand!
Jan
21
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1/21/2012 11:26 PM
"This is the time of fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand! Reform your lives and Believe in the gospel!" Mark 1:15
The Lord doesn't want us to go on with this new year without repenting, that is, reforming our lives. When we hear the Lord's call to repentance, we agree that many people need to hear that call. However, the Lord is saying that each of us needs to repent to remove the plank from our eyes before trying to remove the splinters from the eyes of others (Mt 7:5).
Even if we admit our own need to repent, we probably don't think we have to do so immediately. However, the Lord says: "The time is short" (1 Cor 7:29). We may be like the Ninevites: either we repent within forty days (or forty minutes) or be destroyed (Jon 3:4). "Delay not your conversion to the Lord, put it not off from day to day; for suddenly His wrath flames forth" (Sir 5:8-9). "Delay not to forsake sins, neglect it not till you are in distress" (Sir 18:21). "Now is the acceptable time! Now is the day of salvation!" (2 Cor 6:2)
However, we naturally tend to sin, to stay in sin, and to run stop signs and red lights (Rm 8:7). How can we stop? Only by God's grace can we step on the spiritual brakes and stop sinning. We need the Savior. We need Jesus. We need the Lord to stop us before we kill ourselves.
Get out of the driver's seat of your life. Let Jesus drive. He alone can stop you.
Let us pray: Father, may I stop sinning in the name of Love.