
James 4:14
We should never be so haughty as to believe or think, we are more capable than God! Our lives are like that mist and it will be over, more quickly then we can imagine.
Did you know??
Situation: Thomas Andrews designed the Titanic. After the construction of the Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said, "Not even God can sink it!"
Consequently: I think we all know what happened to the Titanic.
Situation: A man of 32 years of age, was smoking his cigarette. As he puffed out some smoke into the air he said, "God, that's for you!"
Consequently: He died at the age of 33 after being diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer.
Situation: Actress, Marilyn Monroe was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He stated to her, "The Spirit of God has sent me to preach to you." Monroe responded, "I don't need your Jesus!"
Consequently: Marilyn was found dead, in her apartment, one week later.
Situation: Singer, Bon Scott was an ex-vocalist of AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: "Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell."
Consequently: On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.
Situation: 2005, In Campinas, Brazil, a group of drunk friends, went to pickup a friend. The mother accompanied her daughter to the car and became worried by the drunkenness of her friends. She stated to her daughter, who had already jumped into the car, "My daughter, go with God and may He protect you!" Her daughter responded, "Only if He (God) travels in the trunk, because this car is already full!"
Consequently: Hours later, news came that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had been killed and the car could not be recognized... but surprisingly, the trunk was fully intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained undamaged. To their surprise, inside the trunk was a crate of eggs, none of which were broken.
Situation: Christine Hewitt, a Jamaican Journalist and entertainer said this about the Bible, "The Bible is the worst book ever written!"
Consequently: In June 2006, she was found burnt beyond anyone's recognition in her motor vehicle.
Friends, I did not share any of the above, to influence or scare you! Still, I need you to know, so that you are not deceived; my God will not be mocked. Don't be misled by anyone, for no one will make a fool out of God. What ever one plants... he will also harvest.
When selfishness, greed or lust, is planted and God is ignored, all one will harvest is a crop of weeds! That is all anyone will have to show for their actions... "weeds... and finally death!
It is only when the seeds of faith, hope and love are planted, and then yielded to growth work, by God's Holy Spirit, that anyone will harvest a crop of real life... eternal life!
God's desire for His children is to be totally devoted, and totally "on fire" for His good work. We can never have it our own way, flirting with the world one day and praising God the next. Our God is a fiercely jealous lover, however the love he gives us is far superior to anyone or anything we can find here on earth!
We must be faithful to God, dear friends! His Word says, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4
If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. We can't have it both ways.