Here it is late Monday night and I am feeling the
pressure of the clock winding down… I typically write and post devotions on
Mondays but today has been an exceptionally busy day of preaching/teaching,
games to attend, etc. Now the clock is running out as it is already after 11pm.
The reality is that I can write and post this after midnight
and still have it in before midnight CST which is my normal clock… or even
write it tomorrow and ask forgiveness for being late. (And the fact that I am
able to catch the last quarter of the national championship football game on TV
may slow me down a bit.)
In sport it is very common to approach the end of a game
and feel pressure; typically called “crunch-time.” And when the clock for a
game hits double zeroes it is game over and you win or lose. But even there
teams that lose often say, “Get ‘em next time.” When a game is over teams are
already looking to the next game; and if a season ends saying, “Just wait till
next year!”
Part of my busy-ness involves a 2-week Bible class I am
teaching at a Christian school. As I have been going through the introduction
of the class I have hitting fundamentals of the faith. We have hammered the
clarity of the Gospel and making sure we get that right! We have emphasized
that once a person has believed on Christ as his Substitute (Savior) [See John
3:18], he is commissioned to share that truth with others while there is still “time
on the clock.”
What is heavy on my heart right now is the need for
believers to make the message of Christ’s death and resurrection the message of
first importance in life. [See 1 Corinthians 15:3-4]
Why is this so important? Because in a person’s life there
is not another “game” or “season”; when the “clock hits double zeroes” a man’s
fate is determined! Hebrews 9:27 says that we only die once and then comes judgment.
Let’s get busy as time is running out…
(In football time seems to be running out on Oregon in
the championship game… but I am going to post this before midnight!)
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