Time Waits For No One! 8-16–26

Welcome to the word for the week. If there was ever a time to truly know God that time is right now. If there was ever a time to make sure you are sure about your salvation that time is right now. If there was ever a time to consider and change your ways that time is right now. We are not in a season of think about it. We are in a season of doing what God tells us to do. There are no alternatives in this season. There are no other roads we can take. There are no detours. There are no rest stops. We are in a season where there is a need for us to know our God. He cannot just be the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. He has to be personal to you and I. This is not a season for religion or tradition. Yes, you read that correctly. This is a season to have a real relationship with our very real Heavenly Father. Lukewarm will not work in this season.

There are too many signs around us that point to the need to be serious. Everything that Jesus mentioned about the birth pains are happening before us. There are rumors of wars and earthquakes in divers places. With all of the evidence around you there is one question to ask. What are you doing in regard to the obvious? Is your life any better? Have you changed your ways? Have you let go of things that are simply not for you? Our relationship with God does not end in church. It starts there but it continues well after the last benediction is said. We learn about God in church. We have His word confirmed in church. We fellowship with likeminded people in church. Lifetime relationships are built in church. But there is that moment when we must all go our separate ways and live out what we know to be true.

We are in this world and absolutely not of it. The reality is the world does not want to have anything to do with us. We are a constant reminder to the world around us that it is possible to live for Jesus. The world around us is a constant reminder of what God has delivered us from. The world and all of the things in it represent your past. That is time when you did not know God and you did not glorify Him as such. You are a new creature now and old things should be passed away so that all things can now be made new. You are not the life of the party anymore. You are a child of God praying to live a life that is pleasing in the sight of Christ. We have a far different and better reason to celebrate these days. We are saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Spirit. THAT, should mean everything to you! The price paid for your life was the very blood of Jesus. Live the rest of your days upon this earth as if that very thing means more to you than anything else.

There will be a time when all of us must stand before the throne of God and give an account of how we lived the lives He gave us. What will you say at that moment? What will He say? Do you look forward to hearing those words well done thou good and faithful servant? Do you yearn for that moment to spend eternity with Him? That answer is obvious in the way you live your daily life. A person looking forward to Jesus will change everything they can. They will feel bad about the slightest things they do not get right. Are you that person? Do you care where you go? This is not simply a word for the week. This is a wakeup call to God’s people. Everyday we live puts us one day closer to the return of Jesus. Ready or not, He is coming back and when He does He will be looking for His church to be without spot or wrinkle. Time waits for no one!

May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in His grace,
Bishop Carlos J. Lennon