Talk Tuesday-Happy New Year; Keep Watch!

The Psalmist writes, "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom," Psalm 90:12. Many of us rang in the year 2013 amidst much celebration. However, with each new year, comes the sobering realization that we are drawing closer to the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. How we choose to live our lives is as important today as it was yesterday. Jesus tells us that while, "...about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father..." Matthew 24:36, we are to live our lives in a state of readiness,"...So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him," Matthew 24:44.

Let us take stock of our lives and keep watch. Jesus uses the lesson of the Great Flood to remind us of this very important thing. "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away," Matthew 24:37-39. 

Lord, help us to be like the 10 Wise Virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), whose lamps were trimmed with oil in faithful expectancy. Let us be the servants to whom you say, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share in your master's happiness!' Matthew 25:21. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

We, here at BGO, wish you a Blessed, Christ-centered, New Year guided by the watchwords 'FAITH', 'TRUST', 'OBEDIENCE', 'LOVE' and 'GRACE'! 

 

 

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