Sep 30.97: Light For The Day - "The Plan"

Never be afraid to entrust the unknown future
to the all-knowing God. - Anon.

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James 4:14b (RSV):
".... What is your life? For you are a mist that
appears for a little time and then vanishes. 

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"The Plan"

Nothing takes God by surprise. Everything is moving
according to a plan; and God wants you in that plan. 
The devil also has a plan for the world. God has a
plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to
decide which plan you are going to fit into. 

Scripture says that God allows us 70 years and
some beyond. The first 15 years are spent in
childhood and early adolescence. Twenty years are
spent in bed; and in the last five, physical limitations
start to curtail our activities. That gives us about 30
years in which to live as adults. We take time out
for eating, working and for figuring our taxes, and we
are down to perhaps 15 years. Now suppose we
spend seven of those years watching television. 
That cuts us down to seven or eight years.

Our time is short! The time we can invest for God,
in creative things, in reaching our fellowmen for Christ,
is short!
- Billy Graham
Prayer:
Each hour of every day that is left of this earthly life,
I woud spend serving You, Lord Jesus.
Forgive the time spent so often in needless endeavor.

-- Billy Graham"

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"Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we
will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry
on business and make money." 
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. 
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for
a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought
to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do
this or that." 
- James 4:13-15 (NIV)
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1Peter 1:24 (RSV): "For all flesh is like grass and
all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers,
and the flower falls."

1John 2:17 (RSV) "And the world passes away,
and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God
abides for ever. 

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Though I know not what awaits me
What the future has in store
Yet I know that God is faithful,
For I've proved Him oft before. - Anon.


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