THE BEGINNING AND THE END AND THE SHORT SPACE IN BETWEEN

THE BEGINNING AND THE END AND THE SHORT SPACE IN BETWEEN

Your beginning is celebrated with joy and a birth certificate, and your end is celebrated with sadness and a death certificate. You have nothing to do how or when you enter, and little to do with the end, when you exit, "as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" Hebrews 9:27 However, how you handle the short space in between is a matter of your choice, that's what I am interested in. How you choose to respond to attack, how you choose to walk in love, and how you respond to those in need, is what is recorded here in the kingdom. When you are under attack, it's very hard to see that you are blessed, when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake. [12] Trust Me, it's only by My power that you can, rejoice, and be exceeding glad at the time: but I can assure that great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."  Matthew 5:10-12 

You have the choice to defend yourself or stay focused on your purpose and calling and leave your accusers to Me. Here is the test of tests, "you must make it a practice to love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred, [28] Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God's blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you, who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you." Luke 6:27-28 AMP This can only be done with My power, especially when ".your foes are they of your own household. [37] Remember if you love your father or mother more than Me you are not worthy of me: and if you love your son or daughter more than Me you are not worthy of Me. [38] And if you do not take your cross, and follow after Me, you are not worthy of Me." Matthew 10:36-38 KJV

The moment you allow bitterness to enter, you are choosing to lay down your cross and you pick up a sword. Now you must fight your own battle, you have already lost, because placing bitterness in your heart of love was the whole reason for the attack. Always keep looking at the big picture to stay free of the snares of the enemy. "When you are loving Me first and sticking with your purpose, heaven guarantees that all things will work out together, for your good!" Romans 8:28 In the short space in between, your beginning and your end, there is a major issue you will be judged on, let Me set the scene for you: Matthew 25:31-46 AMP

[31] When the Son of Man comes in His glory (His majesty and splendor), and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. [32] All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them the people from one another as a shepherd separates his sheep from the goats; [33] And He will cause the sheep to stand at His right hand, but the goats at His left. 

[34] Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father you favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation, inherit (receive as your own) the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. [35] For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you brought Me together with yourselves and welcomed and entertained and lodged Me, [36] I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me with help and ministering care, I was in prison and you came to see Me. [37] Then the just and upright will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty and gave You something to drink? [38] And when did we see You a stranger and welcomed and entertained You, or naked and clothed You? [39] And when did we see You sick or in prison and came to visit You? [40] And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least in the estimation of men of these My brethren, you did it for Me. 

[41] Then He will say to those at His left hand, Begone from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels! [42] For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, [43] I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me and entertain Me, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me with help and ministering care. [44] Then they also in their turn will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You? [45] And He will reply to them, Solemnly I declare to you, in so far as you failed to do it for the least in the estimation of men of these, you failed to do it for Me. [46] Then they will go away into eternal punishment, but those who are just and upright and in right standing with God into eternal life.

Everything is a matter of choice in the short space in between, I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live [20] And may love the Lord your God, obey His voice, and cling to Him. For He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land of plenty which the Lord swore to give to you...." Deuteronomy 30:19-20 AMP