Serve the Lord Today

Today is the day to serve the Lord.  You have heard that phrase so many times in recent days.  Why is the Lord saying this over and over again, because this is the only day that we have?   Paul reminded us that we must redeem the time that we have.  To redeem the time means to take advantage of very opportunity we have been given by the Lord because we may never get another.  Recently a video was released on the internet showing people crossing a busy intersection.  Everything was fine until a man rode his bicycle across the intersection.  What happened next makes it clear that life is short.  A car slammed through the intersection and you see the man being hit and flying into a tree crushed like a rag doll.  Scenes like this are played out all over the world every day.  More people will be killed in North America in one year because of drunk driving than all the Americans who were killed in the Vietnam War.

                The Lord never said that life would be fair or that we would be immune from heart ache.  He said, “He would keep us in the dark times and would help us to grow through them.”  So when the Lord tells us to draw near it is very good idea to draw near.  When He says, look up for your redemption draws nigh, you better look up.  The Lord is calling His people to a closer walk with Him today.  He is calling us to deeper depths and higher heights with Him.  The Psalmist said, “As deep calls unto deep so I call you.”  The Lord is calling us into a much more personal and intimate relationship.  Let us not turn away from Him but draw close to Him because the days in which we live are evil and they shall become more evil.