The Bible says that there is a time for everything:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8    NIV

1    There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:

2    a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3    a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,

4    a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and

       a time to refrain,

6    a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7    a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8     a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

The Bible also speaks of spending our time wisely. Furthermore, it speaks of the brevity of life here on earth. Telling us in effect to spend each day as if it were our last. In other words, we should not waste our time here on earth. We should live each day to the fullest with God. In Christ, we shall live a productive life like a fruitful tree; its fruit is for the benefit of others and not for itself. So shall we serve humankind with the kind of love that comes from God. We shall strive to make a difference in the lives of the people around us and consequently, the whole world.

Again, the Bible speaks of the brevity of time here on earth. But it also speaks of an eternal time with our Maker, if only our Maker is also our Lord and Savior. Eternity with the Lord is not just a “forever” time but a time where every bit of it is indescribably beautiful and awesome, for the Lord Himself is both Beautiful and Awesome.

Make Jesus the Lord of your life and your Savior as well, if you haven’t done so. Won't you ask Him to come into your heart? AND THE BEST TIME TO DO THAT IS RIGHT NOW!

There is so much to be thankful for when it comes to the day of our birth. Life is a gift from God and if God caused us to be here, He also has set good plans for us as our Creator who has compassion on all of us that He has made. The Bible says that he knit us together in the womb or "in the depths of the earth". We are His works and therefore He cares about us and is intimately involved with our lives, even the smallest detail of our lives. God knows even the number of our hairs and God has a vast sum of loving thoughts for us; thoughts to prosper us and to give us hope and a good future - a good expected end.

I recently celebrated my birthday last February 13 and I am reminded of the brevity of life here on earth. I am reminded that as brief as life here on earth is, all the more that I shall treasure every moment of it for we will never pass this way again as someone said. If you take a picture of every second of your life, each picture is unique and each represents a certain moment which will never be repeated. 

It seems that in life, we go through the same cycle and others call it a "rotten cycle." But when you begin to look closely at life, each day is made different and interesting. Each day has unique features all its own and carries a promise of hope. Hope here comes from the one who made your very life. If He made you, then rest assured that He cares for you. Try looking at a picture closely especially with a microscope, and you will be looking at some dots or blurry objects which tells us that life is best represented when we see the total picture and not the dots of it. Consider each day as a dot and then try to amass your thoughts from all the days that passed and you see that each day is connected to the other and together they form as a concrete statement, perhaps as a book or a poem or a song authored by God. And when you come to the end of your life, the dots of your life here on earth have been formed together to be your life's picture - and at the end of your life, is your life a good picture or a bad one? It all depends on how you have responded to God your Maker. God is the true light that makes everything visible and clear. If God were your light, then you make a good picture. 

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON...

God is the greatest lover of mankind having given the greatest gift to the same. But it takes him more than to just give His Son. On that cross where Jesus was crucified to pay for our sins, God gave the Son up, for us all. In other words, Jesus by taking our sins became sin for us and God must punish sin, so the Son as sin became the object of God's wrath. There was indeed the cutting off or giving up or separation between God and His Son who became sin. Jesus, once the object of His Father's love became the object of God's wrath. Sin must be dealt with and that is, the bearer of all the sins of mankind, must experience death or the painful separation from the love and presence of God. Hence, Jesus said, "Father, Father, why have you forsaken me?" Jesus was given up for us all.

Receive the Greatest Gift of God today. Allow me to lead you to a prayer. Pray the following now:

Dear Jesus, I invite and receive you in my heart as my Master and my Savior. Please receive me into your kingdom. I confess that I am a sinner and ask forgiveness for all my sins. You have paid for my sins on that cross and you are now offering me eternal life simply by believing in you. I pray also to receive your Holy Spirit to dwell in me.  In Your Name I pray.  Amen.