Happy Anniversary! Revisited – The Saturday Morning Post

Jul 2nd, 2022 Happy Anniversary! Revisited – The Saturday Morning Post

Today’s Reading – Psalms 80 – 85 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click here to view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)

(Second Milers also read – Matthew 3 – 4; Psalms 6 – 10; Proverbs 2)

Read the “0702 Evening and Morning” devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.” (Psalm 82:1-8)

Good morning. I had gone back to my last post: ‘Happy Anniversary!’ And as I stared at the picture, I realized something: unless the three pictured had received Jesus when they were children before their involvement in atheism, they are burning in Hell right now: since 1995. When Jesus died on the cross, He bought back, paid the price, for every soul of every nation that ever was, is, or will ever be. They all were His creation…

“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 1:31-2:3)

And our God even claims ownership of every soul…

“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:4)

God is a perfect God, and He created a perfect world, and all that is within it, until sin entered in. God had to create the perfect way to fix His creation.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)

Jesus said…

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:37-40)

Perfect God: perfect salvation. And all you need do is to ask Jesus to save you, and He will…

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13)

So as I look at these three smiling faces, I think of those ‘missed opportunities’: people I had the chance to witness to, but didn’t. This is our purpose: this is what we should be doing. Did they hear, and refuse the gospel? Did they have time to call on the name of the LORD before the kidnappers ended their lives? I don’t know. But I do know I need to be much bolder in my witnessing before it’s too late. How about you?

“And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” (Matthew 28:18-20)

Peace!