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Have you noticed that whenever you are compelled to forsake this world and completely live for Christ, all of a sudden it's chaos, noise, everything to resist you? The enemy does not care if you can repeat a verse once in a while, or read a 5 minute meditation. What he does stand up and takes notice of is the saint that makes a deeply heartfelt commitment born out of conviction to draw near to Jesus. He wastes no time to use what is at hand. He will work to distract and cause delays and bizarre hindrances that rapidly increase. He will cause things to happen from the moment you wake up to incite stressful thoughts, and away goes your peace, and he rules the day. It seems as though you have to fight for every second you are trying with all your might to get away with Jesus.
You see, Satan understand the value and power of a day. If Satan can keep you focused on tomorrow, next week and as far away a year, then he has won a great victory of your loss. Each day that you are given on this earth you will never live again. With the setting sun, so goes that day forever in the written annals of heaven there forever. There is so much happening in the world today like no generation has ever seen. Satan has people running from one thing to another trying to keep up with tomorrow. Then when tomorrow comes, they have in a sense already lived it, and they are seeking for tomorrow again. All the while the day is spent in folly, rudderless searching, and over-investment in world news. The hours add up to days, and the days add up to weeks, into years of forsaken time.
Then when the pureness, and richness of the eternal word is spoken they nibble on it like a snack, then run back into the carnival of this world. Like Jesus said, "The Son of Man must go as it is written of Him." In like manner, the nations and governments will go as it is written of Him as well. Be careful what you are spending your day in, what you are giving your thought life over to or it will swallow you up. Remember that you are given a day at a time to live. Live in each day as if it were your last. How would you want to be remembered? How would you conduct yourself? What would you do or not do? So much is lost living in tomorrow. Abide in Christ on a daily basis, and let Him be your Great Shepherd. You will experience so much and grow like the cedars in Lebanon, or as the Lilies of His valleys. "Today IF you will hear His voice..." listen to Him. "The day is thine, the night also is thine" the Psalmist wrote. That means your days are His days, and you belong to Him today, tomorrow and into the "Perfect Day" of eternity.
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