Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to
the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom. Ecclesiastes
9:10
Work
willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather
than for people. Colossians 3:23. If
you are working for the Lord, you will want
to do your best. I do. I also try to follow advice from one of my favorite
people. Dade W. Moeller, founder of Dade Moeller & Associates, world renown
Health Physicist and author, wrote an encouraging sixteen point speech several
years ago entitled Guidelines for
Life—Rules for Success. One of those points was “Do every job a little
better than anyone expects. If it’s good enough, it’s not.” I think that Dr.
Moeller based that on the way Jesus approached life. Do your best—not just good
enough to get by. Those are good words by which to live. Does that fit into your way of doing things?
Will you be totally obedient as you love God and others—not just good enough to
get by?
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| The empty Garden Tomb in Jerusalem. |
When you go to the grave there will be
rest. Sleep. Paul tells us in 1Thessalonians about those “sleeping”—dead in the
grave—when Christ returns.
But we do not want you to be uninformed,
brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the
rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we
say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the
coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord
Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we
who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to
meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore
comfort one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 NASB.
Are you ready for Christ’s return? Get
ready. Be ready…we don’t know the hour or the day.
Prayer
~ Lord, may whatever I do now while I am still alive, please You. One day I
will go to the grave and that will be it—no more work, no plans, no gains in
knowledge or wisdom. Just rest and sleep—until You return. Open my eyes to
anything that I need to do—now—before You return.
Verse
of Salvation ~ For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away
from sin and results in salvation. There's no regret for that kind of sorrow.
But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death. 2
Corinthians 7:10
Repent, turn to God, gain salvation; while
there is still time.
(Revised from May 2016)
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