READ: LUKE19:1-10
In 1975,
there was a Bible study on restitution in one of our churches in the western
part of Nigeria. After the study, a lady came to the altar and kept praying
until the church was to be locked up at night. She went home reluctantly,
praying and weeping. At home, around 3.00 a.m, she remembered that she has
offended her mother and decided to make things right immediately. She woke up
her mother and did this. The next morning she travelled to Ife where her
husband lived, for they had been separated after a quarrel. She reunited and
settled with her husband. On her way back home, she stood at the bus stop to
take a bus when, together with the little son she had taken with her, a trailer
came ramming into the two, separating mother and child, and dragging the lady
some distance away from the spot. She died immediately. The lady never knew she
was going to die but, thank God, she had been prepared for eternity. Will our thanksgiving
be acceptable to God if our lives are not in accordance with His will? Not every
gift is acceptable to God. You know the story of Cain and Abel. They both
brought offerings to the Lord. One was accepted while the other was rejected.
If you are born again, do not spend for God. It is true that the Bible say we
should lay our treasures in Heaven but why lay treasures where you are not
going? You should settle the matter of making heaven before any other thing. Awake
to righteousness. Prepare for eternity. We don’ know when the Lord will come.
What will you say if He meets you unawares?
MEMORIZE:
MATTHEW5:20–For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
