Today's Topic:
STRIVE TO ENTER GOD’S KINGDOM.
📖 Bible Reading:
Luke 13:22-30, NLT:-
🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊🖊
22 Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he went, always pressing on toward Jerusalem.
23 Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He replied,
24 “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.
25 When the master of the house has locked the door, it will be too late. You will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Lord, open the door for us!’ But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
26 Then you will say, ‘But we ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’
27 And he will reply, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you come from. Get away from me, all you who do evil.’
28 “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, for you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, but you will be thrown out.
29 And people will come from all over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of God.
30 And note this: Some who seem least important now will be the greatest then, and some who are the greatest now will be least important then.”
🔑 Key Verse:
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door.”
- Luke 13:24, NIV
The Message:
The story was told of a young lady who was weeping bitterly and uncontrollably at the convocation ceremony of a University. What happened was that the lady was a brilliant student but in her second year, she lost focus and went about partying. She no longer attended classes, did assignments, wrote examinations nor participated in any of the things that would ensure her graduation in good time and with good grades. So when her mates were graduating and rejoicing, she couldn’t graduate with them because her grades were so woeful that it would take her some extra sessions to make them up. Though she wept bitterly, it was too late because the Senate had sat and the decision had been made. In our text today, Jesus warned His listeners to do everything necessary to gain access into the kingdom before it is too late.
No matter how difficult the Christian race is, we are this day enjoined to endure and persevere until we get to the kingdom. Don’t lose focus of where you are going; do not mind the challenges on the path but focus on the final reward of reigning with the Lord on the last day. It would be too late for anyone to decide for Christ after death or on the Judgement Day. Now is the time to decide to live for Jesus.
Birthday Blessing:
“I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them.”
- Amos 9:15.
Read Bible Through Passage:
Judges 5; Acts 9; Jeremiah 18; Mark 4.
Food for Thought:
“God is a great God, but even God can’t make the decision for us. He can help but only we can decide. We have to make our own choice.”
– Joan W. Brown
💥Good morning beloved. How was your night?
Today, as you march forward in complete obedience, may the Lord Jesus grant you the grace to enter HIS Kingdom no matter the distractions and discomfort, in Jesus' name. (AMEN)💥
Today, the Word of God will come to you and you will be blessed.
HAPPY SUNDAY.