Good Morning Friends,
“Do not be like your forefathers, to whom the
earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Turn from
your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention
to me, declares the LORD. Where are your forefathers now? And the prophets, do
they live forever? But did not my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants
the prophets, overtake your forefathers? Then they repented and said, ‘The LORD
Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve, just as he
determined to do.’” (Zechariah 1:4-6)
There are only a few things that you can
count on being around next generation and the generation after that and on into
the future. Consider how things have changed just in your own lifetime. Things
change rapidly, and what seems so important and new becomes outdated and useless
very quickly.
People don’t last, either. The reality of
life is that the years of a man’s life pass quickly and then death overtakes
them. Leaders and influential people of the past have gone away. People can be counted
on for a while, but they don’t last forever, not on earth.
But there is one thing that you can count on
being here. It was here when your great-grandparents were in their prime -- and
even when your great-grandparents’ great-grandparents were in theirs. It will
be here when your great-grandchildren are mature and it will be here for every
succeeding generation after them.
The Word of the Lord can be counted on to be
around as long as the earth is -- and beyond it! Jesus said, “Heaven and earth
will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)
God’s Word can always be counted on. It can’t
be destroyed and it will never change!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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