LifeSeries: One Shot, Many Opportunities.
18 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
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To begin this weekly series, “LifeSeries”, a blog collection of posts that talk about life, and what kind of aspects we as Christians should look at life.
Today on the very first post, we’ll talk about something we frequently forget in life. We have one shot at it. Ouch. Hurts, right? Well it should. I mean really, after thinking about it, you can see many aspects of our life we have one shot at. One shot at our first kiss, one shot at raising our kids, one shot at a speech, one shot at messages and sermons for pastors. It’s a one shot world. Well, that is until you look at salvation. Yes, we only have one shot at making our decision. We’re eternally secure. But if we deny the spirit that one time, he’ll convict us. God gives us so many opportunities in life for our “one shot”, that we never actually take our shot. It’s like we are conservative to take our shot, like theres something better lurking to take it at. Really, there are many things we do that to. Relationships, we ignore the one that could be the one because we think there is something better, we decline a job because theres one with better pay in the air, and then when that plan fails, you don’t have the opportunity God provided for you.
You then proceed to blame God for the mistake you made.
I’ve got news for you, you made the choice, not God.
To sum it up, take your one shot when its available to you. Yes, God will then make another one, but when his will is his will, and its not for you to change. You can’t change it. It’s what you were meant to be here for. Your one shot is not meant to be conserved, its meant to be used when God tells you to. Now, you may think, “Well how can I know when God wants me to use it?” Well, first of all pray. It never hurts to pray to God and cast your burdens on Him, because he will for sure help you out. Second of all, live. Yeah, its simple, just live. You have to live your life, you know? God didn’t give it to you for you to not live it out. He gave it to you for you to simply live.
Take your shots, no matter the circumstance.
thanks for reading!!!!
and don’t ever forget….JESUS LOVES YOU!!!!
