EVERYBODY'S ON A DEATH MARCH, UNTIL...
Did you ever notice the older you get the more you rush to get things done? Even when your body is finished for the day, your mind continues rushing, robbing you of much needed sleep. The reason you automatically rush is because you are dying. Everyone living thing, from the moment of birth starts dying, every hour that passes is one hour closer to death. Every human is on a meaningless death march. Live a good life, make a lot of money, raise a family, for what? Your dying and your kids are dying. ..."death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" Romans 5:12 (KJV) This gruesome thought is so depressing that most people will never entertain it. All your earthly efforts are in vain and meaningless without life after death. But ..."it is appointed for all men once to die, and AFTER THAT the certain judgment," Hebrews 9:27 (AMP)
This being the case wouldn't you would think everyone would be be thrilled, for the opportunity to start over and be born again? It is not thrilling to the flesh of man because he must also die, two deaths. You must go through an early death to be born a second time. The death of self, is harder to go through, because it's a choice. If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world''s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? Colossians 2:20 (AMP)
However when you choose early death, the natural death will not threaten you any longer. All reborn humans can ask the death angel, "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" 1 Corinthians 15:55 (AMP)
The death angel works for Me, because I hold the keys of death now. Adam handed them to satan, and I went to hell and took them back, or you all, would be on a meaningless death march.
All of a sudden you are marching toward life!!! Because you chose early death and were born again, you have switched roads, made a U turn and are on a life march. Now you must re-train your mind to always think eternal, giving everything on earth, great meaning. You can no longer, ..."be conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2 Every joy and every sorrow, every task and every challenge, every temptation and every victory all have great significance, after re-birth. "Therefore if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 (AMP)
Every act of obedience, love, kindness, every word of encouragement, and every grateful thought, has it's eternal reward. You will constantly feel the presence of your creator, and even your worst down times will be richer the the best your former life could offer. ..."whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." Matthew 10:42
Now start enjoying everything that comes your way, because
you ..."are assured and know that God being a partner in their labor all things work together and are fitting into a plan for good to and for those who love God and are called according to His design and purpose." Romans 8:28 (AMP)
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Best regards
Jim Hammerle
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