It is often hard to understand why we go through difficult circumstances in life. What does God have to say to us about the need for difficult times and the ability to endure through them?
This young man walked away from eternal life (heaven) because he loved something more than he loved God. Is there anything for which you would walk away from Heaven?
We all have found that life can be consumed with the “things” that dominate the “here and now,” leaving little to no thought of the “there and then.” Our focus must be on Heaven, even as we discharge the duties of daily life.
Too many of God’s children lack confidence in their salvation. Peter affirms just the opposite in this stirring passage, for which we rejoice!
On our greatest days we often forget to give thanks because things are going so well and on our worst days, we often feel there is nothing to give thanks for. Look at what the Lord requires of us.
Our world is full of sin and the devil is at work trying to get each one of us to follow him to eternal destruction. How great it will be where we enter a relationship with the Lord where the devil is not.
For November, we are Focused on Heaven, and today we begin our focus with the assurance Jesus gave the apostles in the upper room: “that where I am, you will be also.”