What Will You Say?

In Romans 14:12, Paul tells us that "each of us will give an account of himself to God."

What will you say?

Will you tell God about your high score in bowling, or your tennis trophy, or your sales award, or your gold watch, or your beach house, or your convertible, or how many hours you worked each week, or the corner office you had with the great view, or your straight-A report card, or the time your photo was in the newspaper, or how much you left behind in your bank account?

Or will you tell God how you trusted in Jesus Christ as your Savior, and how you fed the hungry, and gave drink to the thirsty, and showed compassion to strangers, and clothed the naked, and looked after the sick, and visited those in prison?

What does your "life resume" look like? What's it filled with? When God does this final audit of your life, what will He find?

Have you used everything that God has given you in this life - your gifts, talents, skills, money, relationships, jobs, opportunities, energy, and resources - to serve Him, or just for your own selfish desires and personal gratification and comfort?

We're all going to stand before God one day, and tell Him what we did with our lives.

What will you say?

What Will You Say?

In Romans 14:12, Paul tells us that "each of us will give an account of himself to God."

What will you say?

Will you tell God about your high score in bowling, or your tennis trophy, or your sales award, or your gold watch, or your beach house, or your convertible, or how many hours you worked each week, or the corner office you had with the great view, or your straight-A report card, or the time your photo was in the newspaper, or how much you left behind in your bank account?

Or will you tell God how you trusted in Jesus Christ as your Savior, and how you fed the hungry, and gave drink to the thirsty, and showed compassion to strangers, and clothed the naked, and looked after the sick, and visited those in prison?

What does your "life resume" look like? What's it filled with? When God does this final audit of your life, what will He find?

Have you used everything that God has given you in this life - your gifts, talents, skills, money, relationships, jobs, opportunities, energy, and resources - to serve Him, or just for your own selfish desires and personal gratification and comfort?

We're all going to stand before God one day, and tell Him what we did with our lives.

What will you say?

Body and Soul

There once was a man who went to Africa on a safari hunt. He hired many members of a local tribe to assist him with the hunt, and he had great success. He had so much success in his hunt, in fact, that each day he got up earlier and earlier, and finished later and later, so that he could get more hunting in before he had to end his trip.

About a week into his trip, the hunter rose bright and early at 5:00 AM to begin his day of hunting. He went to wake up the local tribesmen, but they wouldn't budge. "No hunting today," they told him.

"Get up!" he cried. "I'm paying you and I need us to get started right now!'

"No hunting today," one of the tribesmen responded.

"Get up!" the hunter repeated. "Get up or I'll fire you!"

"No hunting today," another tribesman echoed.

"Get up! Please get up now! I'll even give you a bonus if you get up now!"

"No hunting today, sir!"

"Why?" the hunter asked. "We've gone out hunting all week, so why won't you go out now?"

"Because, sir," one of the older tribesmen responded, "it's time for our souls to catch up to the rest of our bodies."

It's time for our souls to catch up to the rest of our bodies.

It's the same for us, isn't it?

We fill our lives with excessive demands and overwhelming responsibilities, and pretty soon we feel like a runaway bus about to careen off the expressway.

But we know that God rested after He created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 2:2), and Jesus was resting just before He calmed the storm on the Sea of Galilee (Matthew 8:23-27). Jesus also says, "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest." (Matthew 11:28)

So if you're overhelmed with responsibilities and you're suffocating from excessive demands, and if you're tired, worn out, burned out, have hit the wall, and want to throw in the towel and scream "No mas!", then come to Jesus. Get away with Him. Rest with Him. Rest in Him.

Jesus will help your soul catch up to the rest of your body.