Sep 11, 2018
When you were dead in
your sins, God made you alive with Christ. Col 2:13
We are either living
for eternal rewards or dieing for worldly pleasures.
September 11th was just another day on the annual
calendar until 2001, when planes crashed into the twin towers and the
Pentagon. That day changed American and
World History. Life changed after September 11th permanently,
and we now mark the day on our calendar as a day of remembrance and change.
There is another day in history that changed the world. It was the day that a carpenter in Israel
rose from the dead, something he had predicted and then actually did it. This wasn’t an ordinary man, it was someone
who lived a perfect life, claimed to be the Son of God, and taught people what
God expected out of our lives. That one
day is called Easter, and is a significant day on our annual calendar for those
who believe.
There’s one other day that may be marked on your
calendar. It’s marked on mine. It’s the day you publicly proclaimed your
surrender to Jesus as both your Lord and Savior. That’s the day you turned over your heart to
Jesus, and died to your sins, rising out of the waters of baptism to a new
eternal life. While the rest of the
world may never have noticed, it was a day that God notices forever. That was YOUR resurrection day. It was a day that changed your eternal life.
The key to all of these calendar entries is not the date,
but the change. Our lives were changed
on September 11th. The gates
of eternity were changed on Easter Sunday.
And our lifestyles should have been changed on the day we surrendered
our hearts to Jesus. So why keep living
for the same pleasures before that change?
We were dead before our conversion, so don’t go back to the lifestyle
that was killing our souls. Live for the
eternal future instead of the deadly past.
Take time to remember those that died on September 11th,
and the way the world changed.
Take time to celebrate the day that changed eternity when
Jesus rose from the dead.
And take time to recommit to your life to Jesus again – or if
it is for the first time, then surrend your life to Him and mark the day your
life was forever changed.
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