Living for God

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Living for God is different than believing in Him. Being wholehearted for Jesus is different than having a sincere love for Him. Giving Him everything is different than giving Him a lot.

For thousands of years, the world waited for Jesus to come. Then, one day, He arrived. For 33 years He walked in a regular body just like you and I, and then, on an April afternoon, He was crucified. At that moment, the long awaited salvation of mankind became real. There is another promised day. The day Jesus returns "riding on the clouds of heaven." Jesus told us what to look for, and those signs are appearing in an intense way. Angels told Daniel what events would transpire before that day, and they are actually happening right now. An angel told John what would happen in the last 7 years leading up to that day, and for the first time in human history, all these events are coalescing in a way that makes the Revelation prophecies foreseeable in the not too distant future...

Just like John the Baptist prepared people for the day of the first revealing of Jesus, there are many announcing the second day.

The Bible says that until that day, the reward waiting for those who choose to "live for God" will not be obvious, but on one day in the near future the wisdom of living for God will be obvious to everyone on the face of the earth.

Salvation is free gift to humans, and is received just by trusting and confessing that Jesus paid for our sins and turning from sin to the best of our ability...but "living for God"...that takes an intentional reaching for Him...asking Him for more, and more, and more of Him in our lives...on ONE DAY it will be obvious to all that this was the wisest decision a person could make! I am at the beginning of the beginning of learning to live for God, but I want to reach as much as I can until that day!

Psalm 58:11 Then at last everyone will say,

"There truly is a reward for those who live for God;

surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth."

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