YOUR LIFE IS SHORT! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. —James 4:14 Life is so short when compared to eternity. Compared to eternity the temporal life on this planet is almost nothing. God is so immense. He is eternal and we truly have a very hard time comprehending that which is eternal. It is truly astounding. We are like a vapor that quickly vanishes, a shadow that soon fades, a breath that is briefly exhaled or the brevity of the blink of the eye. How many years have you lived? Look back. Haven’t those years flown by? Can you…

A POWERFUL BODY MEMBER! With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. —James 3:9-10 The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit. —Proverbs 18:21 As powerful as turning a massive horse or a rudder steering a huge ship, so is that tiny tongue in your mouth. It can be used to praise our Lord and Father or it can curse the very people that God created in His…

FAITH WORKS! What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is…

MY HELP “The Lord is my helper.” —Hebrews 13:6 Who is there to better help us than the Lord Jesus Christ? Nobody, and so let us run to Him for the help we need. He is always there for us. He said He would never leave us nor forsake us and that He would be with us until the end of the age (Hebrews 13:5; Matthew 28:20). Yes, Jesus will help! Go to Him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiYWaeAcRw Dear Father, may I run to You first. Thank You for the help You give me. I am so grateful. May I go forward with that help and be a faithful follower of Jesus in…

CREATION WILL BE SHAKEN! The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” —Hebrews 12:27-29 All created things will be shaken and only those things that cannot be shaken will remain. What is it that will remain? Only His Kingdom will not be shaken! Every single follower of Jesus is part of that kingdom and will not be shaken when all other created things are (Colossians…

THE CHOICE He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. —Hebrews 10:25 There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated—the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith.…

BY FAITH! Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. ———Hebrews 11:1-3 It is by faith, which is a confidence and assurance, “we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” By faith then: 1- We understand that the universe was formed at God’s command. Multiple times in Genesis chapter 1 God created through…

PERFECT & BLAMELESS! The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. —Hebrews 10:1 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. — Hebrews 10:4 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. —Hebrews 10:10 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. — Hebrews 10:14 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts…

MY HOPE IS IN JESUS! Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. —Lamentations 3:21-23 Call this to your mind… and have hope! It is “because of the Lord’s great love that we are not consumed” and also that “his compassions never fail.” Not only that, but his love and compassions are new every morning and his faithfulness is great! May we truly call this to mind and have hope! More than likely you are not in the same context as when this…

JESUS INTERCEDES FOR ME! Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. —Hebrews 7:25 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. —Romans 8:27 Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God–and He is interceding for us. —Romans 8:34 For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on…