Your Life Depends on God's Word: Embrace It, Live It
Deut. 32:47a For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: …
Serving God is no small matter! "It is your life!" It seems that as significant as God is, we'd pay Him more attention! After all, He's just our life! I mean, come on! You mean to tell me that you'll be just fine without Him? I don't think so! "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Matt 4:4.
It amazes me how surprised people act when they reap the full consequences of their Christ-less existence, all the while having been warned by the Word of God through the man of God about the pitfalls of sin.
It's too late to heed the Word of God as it pertains to raising your children, once your children are grown, gone and rebellious! It's too late to heed to the Word of God as it pertains to sexual purity once you wake up to a devastating STD which resulted from immoral, sinful behavior. It's too late to heed the Word of God as it pertains to the dangers of alcohol once you have wasted your entire life away bowing to its deceitful demands.
I could go on, but hopefully you get the point. Don't get me wrong here...God can take anyone with anything left and make the best out of what remains, but why don't more people realize that much of life's pitfalls can be avoided by simply heeding God's Word? I have my own share of totally avoidable pitfalls as a result of my own stubbornness and disobedience. However, it was not because I wasn't told!
To both the sinner and the child of God I say, your whole life depends upon the Word of God, whether you realize it or not! If you want to be saved from the destruction of sin both now and throughout eternity in Hell, then you MUST heed the Word of God! And if you want absolutely the best life that you could possibly have in Christ, then you MUST heed the Word of God! It all comes down to His Word!
If you're tempted to think, "Well, I don't know...I've tried that 'Bible' thing and it didn't work for me.", then I ask you to read our text again, "For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:” Remember this: It is no vain thing for you to believe and act in obedience to God's word...your life depends upon it!
~ Pastor Gary Caudill
Serving God is no small matter! "It is your life!" It seems that as significant as God is, we'd pay Him more attention! After all, He's just our life! I mean, come on! You mean to tell me that you'll be just fine without Him? I don't think so! "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Matt 4:4.
It amazes me how surprised people act when they reap the full consequences of their Christ-less existence, all the while having been warned by the Word of God through the man of God about the pitfalls of sin.
It's too late to heed the Word of God as it pertains to raising your children, once your children are grown, gone and rebellious! It's too late to heed to the Word of God as it pertains to sexual purity once you wake up to a devastating STD which resulted from immoral, sinful behavior. It's too late to heed the Word of God as it pertains to the dangers of alcohol once you have wasted your entire life away bowing to its deceitful demands.
I could go on, but hopefully you get the point. Don't get me wrong here...God can take anyone with anything left and make the best out of what remains, but why don't more people realize that much of life's pitfalls can be avoided by simply heeding God's Word? I have my own share of totally avoidable pitfalls as a result of my own stubbornness and disobedience. However, it was not because I wasn't told!
To both the sinner and the child of God I say, your whole life depends upon the Word of God, whether you realize it or not! If you want to be saved from the destruction of sin both now and throughout eternity in Hell, then you MUST heed the Word of God! And if you want absolutely the best life that you could possibly have in Christ, then you MUST heed the Word of God! It all comes down to His Word!
If you're tempted to think, "Well, I don't know...I've tried that 'Bible' thing and it didn't work for me.", then I ask you to read our text again, "For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life:” Remember this: It is no vain thing for you to believe and act in obedience to God's word...your life depends upon it!
~ Pastor Gary Caudill