What if?
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,
(Jeremiah 31: 31-32 NASB)
not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.”
Time is precious for every person alive because people have plans, hopes, and experiences they really want to accomplish in their lives. God knows all about our hopes, our dreams, our concerns, our fears, our plans, our struggles, our EVERYTHING because God created us. Since God created us, He desires to share time with us.
Consider for a moment: two young people who date and fall in love.
See their love grow as they share time together.
One specific day, they enter the covenant relationship of marriage.
Naturally, the next days (after their marriage) they desire to share life together: experiences, days, and future plans.
However, “what if” this same young couple married and then went their separate ways?
- What if—this young couple married BUT NEVER SHARED CONVERSATION after their marriage day?
- What if—they married BUT THEN came back together FIFTY YEARS later to celebrate their “Golden” anniversary?
- What if—they entered their covenant of marriage BUT NEVER REALLY GREW CLOSER in their covenant relationship?
What if?
“For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD:
(Jeremiah 31: 33-35 NASB)
“I will put My law within them and write it on their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
“They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying,
‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD,
“for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”
This is what the LORD says,
He who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon
and the stars for light by night,
Who stirs up the sea so that
its waves roar—
The LORD of armies is His name: . . .”
“Maybe It’s Okay” by We Are Messengers is a beautiful proclamation through song about the peace we can know through our personal relationship with Jesus.
- Listen today and be reminded how—It’s okay if we are not perfect here on earth; God does not tell us that we have to be (perfect)—ONLY FAITHFUL IN OUR WALK WITH HIM.
- Listen today and be reminded how—it’s okay if we are living our lives, often filled with challenges; for when we WALK BY FAITH THROUGH LIFE, then the lost may SEE & TRUST IN THE LORD (because of our witness)!
- What if someone listened to our testimony & heard the truth about God?
- What if someone listened to our testimony & responded to the gospel message?
- What if someone listened to our personal testimony & repented of his sins BEFORE his last day of life BEFORE he faced eternal separation from God?
What if?
On the night before Jesus was crucified, He met with His disciples in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. During the night, they shared the LORD’S Supper.
“And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying,
(Luke 22: 19-20 NASB)
“This is My body which is being given to you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying,
“This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant in My blood.”
Time is precious for every person alive!
God knows our EVERYTHING (even our number of days) because God created us!
God created us, & He desires to share time with us—with every single person!
- What if we were a person’s last chance to hear the gospel message?
- What if we were a friend’s last chance to hear & his last opportunity to repent of his sins?
- What if a family member NEVER heard the gospel message again during his lifetime—AFTER TODAY?
- What if—AFTER TODAY, no one EVER shared again—a testimony about the goodness of God with this person we know?
- What if today was “IT—the VERY LAST DAY” someone we know and love could EVER have—A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE LORD?
What if?