How ya’ living?

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

How ya’ living? How does your daily life reflect your faith? How does you daily life reflect what you participate in on Sunday? Participation in Sunday church alone is called religion, and if Sunday is your only point of reference to gaining heaven, you need to read Matthew 25; no let me put that much clearer; you need to pray for the Holy Spirit to reveal and speak to your heart as you read Matthew 25. This chapter in the gospel of Matthew calls for a self-reflection of your life, for it gives three parables that clearly give examples of how to live, and how not to live your life as a Christian. The parables of the Talents and the Ten Virgins, and the Judgement of the Gentiles. All of these parables reflect what it will be like to kneel before Jesus one day and give an account of our lives. Yep….you have to answer for how you lived your life once you came to hear and claim to know Jesus as your Savior. Saying a prayer and signing a card does not give you hall pass to continue with life steep in sin, living under hyper-grace, and not living a life changed forever by the gospel. If you think you will be entering into heaven just on that 60 seconds of your life, you are wrong and need to read Matthew 25. The power of the gospel has the ability to save all your sins, past, present, and future, but nowhere in the Bible do you find the evidence of today’s week presentation of the gospel. You are called to live your life as a disciple and spread the good news of Jesus Christ to all that will hear. You are called to not live for this world and all the pleasurable pursuits of sin found in it. You are called to dedicate your life for it’s short time here to the One who give you eternity there (heaven).

The parable of the Ten Virgins tells us about those who live their lives unprepared; are you so focused on success and sin that you do no invest in things that eternally matter? The parable of the Talents speaks to those that do, or do not invest their time eternally; where is your time being invested in the only place with a guaranteed return? The Judgement of the Gentiles speaks to those that claim Christianity, but have no evidence in their lives of it; they may have prayed prayers or signed cards but their lives produce no fruit of their salvation; they are living a lie. All throughout the New Testament we are called to live our lives as disciples; we are called to let Him do work through our lives to produce eternal fruit through us; we are called to be servants to the One who saved us from eternal punishment to eternal paradise. Jesus did not come the first time to judge the world, he came to save the world. The next time he returns he will judge the world and we will be held accountable to a Holy, righteous, judge. Think about this from 2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. You will never be perfect, only One was, but you are called to try every day to live your life for the One who gives you life. How ya’ living will be asked of you when he returns to judge. Are ya’ ready to answer for yesterday?