Tomorrow 🤔 Never Comes

 Wow the Lord just let me see another Bible Nugget. This reminds me of  Proverbs 2:4 (KJV) If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 

Proverbs 2:5 (KJV) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

I like that word find, because if you are not looking you will never find. I was just reading along at normal speed as I do every morning and I read this  

Hebrews 3:15 (KJV) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

I thought to myself didn’t I just read those words? Yes I did Hebrews 3:7 (KJV) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Hebrews 3:8 (KJV)  Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, 

Then again we read in Hebrews 4:7 (KJV) Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Three times in the book of Hebrews we read the same words. If our Lord says something three times I think we should take notice. To day, Hear, Harden not. Has anyone ever said to you “ how many times have I said that? How many times do I have to say that?” Why is to day so important? Because regardless of what we heard in the movie “Gone With The Wind” “After all, tomorrow is another day!” Tomorrow never comes as my grandmother told me many years ago. I just couldn’t understand that. I said no grandmother tomorrow, to which she said no! why? I asked? She said this to me “for when tomorrow comes it will be today! 

Proverbs 27:1 (KJV) Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. The Lord reminded me of  Matthew 6:11 (KJV) Give us this day our daily bread. Give today! Plan yes but live in today for you nor I know what will happen in the future and that is what tomorrow is. As a friend of mine said one day “you may tie your shoes this morning but tonight the undertaker may untie them for you.”  Shouldn’t I plan for the future? Yes but you plan for the future today. Let me explain: when I was 34 my dad told me to put $2000 a year into an IRÁ and when you are old enough to retire you’ll have enough. Great advice! Only problem with that is I didn’t do that. You can’t think about retirement 5 years before you retire. Neither can you think about heaven if you at one time or another hear God’s voice to day. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Have  you ever had a, today moment?

Hebrews 13:8 (KJV) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

The Clock Is Ticking ⏰

 Hebrews 3:13 (KJV) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

We should encourage each other every day while and when we have the opportunity. Why? Because of sin. Sin is our enemy it will destroy without mercy but if we learn to encourage there are many things we can avoid. Maybe we could avoid depression because it is a discouragement, a place of loneliness. I want to be that smiling face that have words of encouragement that others want to see coming their way. This exhort or encouragement should be to one another and everyday not when we feel like it. Because we will never know who needs to hear those kind words. I have sit with many men who if their wife would say words of encouragement to them oh what a different it would make in their lives. In their husbands life yes, but more so in their wives. We must never forget that it works both ways. We are told we need to encourage one another. Who have you said words of encouragement to today? The clock is ticking, you still have time..

Lost and Found

Hebrews 3:9 (KJV) When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

In the Past “your fathers” looking backward I must remember that experience is not the best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of these great people in the Bible God will show me the secrets that made them great. “When your fathers tempted me” Wow this is something to read. Here we read of a group of many and they tested God. Oh my, then we are told “proved me” tested and proved. Was God brought to the point of distrust? Ingratitude? This group of people, God’s people, saw God’s works for 40 years

Deuteronomy 29:2 (KJV) And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

Deuteronomy 29:3 (KJV) The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: You not only saw it you experienced it first hand. Hebrews 3:10 (KJV) Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. Many do the same today. God saves them from an awful life of sin and like these Israelites did after seeing what God did with the Egyptian; burying them in the Red Sea. They stand and praise God for all His goodness and then in a short time show ingratitude toward God the one that delivered them. Hebrews 3:10 (KJV) Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. Their actions grieved God just like it must do today when we act the same way. Why the grieving? Maybe the same reason “They do alway err in their heart;” The problem was a heart problem and the reason why “they have not known my ways.” God is not a Jenny in a bottle we pull out when things are going bad. No, that’s not God's way at all. Ask someone if they were to die today would they go to heaven? They would more than likely say yes! Ask them why they can say that and the answers vary. Most of the time the answer includes how good they have been. Very few know why they are going to heaven when they die. First thing one must know  

Luke 19:10 (KJV) For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Never will anyone be found until they know they are lost. Think about the time you might have gotten lost in the department store when you were a child. Maybe lost in the woods while hunting. That happened to my son-n-law and the forest rangers had to go find him. Those are times you don’t forget. So the question is did you know when you were found? Sure you did! Same is true when the Lord found you 1 John 5:13 (KJV) These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

I didn’t get found in that department store because of my goodness. I was found because my mother loved me and went and found me. My son-n-law didn’t get found that night because he was good. NO he was found because others loved him and sent others to find him. Neither did God find you because you were good. Oh no, God found you because you were lost and He loved you greatly. Today you still remember that day God found you. Don’t test, prove nor be ungrateful toward Him instead learn His ways.

Overwhelming Guilt 🎭

Hebrews 3:8 (KJV) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Today if you will hear God’s Voice?

 “Harden not your hearts” then this word, I really didn’t know the meaning of “provocation” so I looked it up.

Provocation “Any thing that excites anger; the cause of resentment.” Then “temptation” and “wilderness”  Is this another word picture? I believe it is. When we read this how do we perceive what we read? If we have no understanding of the wilderness we have no idea what is being taught here. What is the wilderness? God answers the prayer of His Children and delivers them from bondage in Egypt. Opens the Red Sea and destroys their enemy by burying them all as the water rushed over them. Now they are free from bondage as they see and know it's the Work of God. In Exodus 15 they sing praises unto God and rejoice over the great victory. They began to travel but 3 days later they found themselves without water. They came to Marah but the water there was bitter and undrinkable. They began to complain not waiting to see what God will do. It only took 3 days to forget what God had done at the Red Sea. If only they could see what’s ahead on their pathway. But no, all they could see was the present and forgot what God had already done. Did God bring them this far to let them die of thirst? I said all this to bring out this word “provocation” bitter water brought anger and resentment. At the first sign of trouble they get angry and their hearts begin to get hard. Complaining is the first sign of a heart getting hard. If God wants me away from drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling you name it. Then why do these temptations keep coming my way?  Great question. I and neither can you keep temptations away. Just because you quit doesn’t mean the enemy has. The enemy's job is to destroy the opponent and they do that by finding their weakness. Once the weakness is found they work on improving their destruction of the opponent by their weakness. Steve Curington said it well when he said “before you done it you thunk it.” The temptation comes but you don’t let it go, you keep thinking about it until you do it. A temptation is nothing more than a desire driving by, that you won’t let pass. What would you think of a person running in front of a bus trying to out run it? Very soon they would be run over by the bus? That is a picture of temptation. Just keep thinking about it and it will take you over. The fall will be disastrous and the guilt will be overwhelming. 

Tomorrow Will Be Fine 😳

I have read about Moses as the faithful servant of God. Not only a servant but a servant with a testimony that stood out. Then this verse  

Hebrews 3:7 (KJV) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Today! Then there’s that two letter word “if” if what? “ye will hear his voice” sounds reasonable as well as urgent. Urgent in that it’s not tomorrow nor next week but “To day” When I read that word “To day” the Lord brought this to my mind of the day when there were frogs everywhere in the land of Egypt.  Exodus 8:3 (KJV) And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

Exodus 843 (KJV) And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants. 

Do you see the dilemma? Frogs abundantly in the house, in the bedroom, in the bed, in the servants house. If that’s not bad enough, frogs are upon the people. Go into the kitchen, open the oven, you got it, frogs in there too. Everywhere you look frogs, and more frogs. Let me ask you a question. If someone were to ask you when you want the frogs removed what would you say? More than likely you would say now or if possible yesterday. We aren’t talking about 2 toads in the front yard oh no they are everywhere. Read this  

Exodus 8:9 (KJV) And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I intreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? The answer is very surprising to me? What do you think?? Exodus 8:10 (KJV) And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. TOMORROW!!!! That my friend I just don’t understand. But wait a minute when I read that and put it into todays light I see the same thing.  I have seen those holding on to the bench in front of them in a Church service fighting while God is wanting to save them and they just will not let God save them. Why is that? They just want to spend one more night with the frogs. Alcohol or drug abuse has wrecked their life and although they hate it and want to be free they are just willing to spend one more night with its sorrows. It’s too bad that some never get rid of the frogs. Do you hear God’s Voice?

The Stake, The Wood, The Fire

Hebrews 3:5 (KJV) And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

I wouldn’t say everyone knows the name Moses, but those who do know it, know it from the scriptures. Now ask yourself a question: will anyone even know who you were in 3000 plus years? I would say NO! What about what you nor I did as a servant of God? No not that either. Matter a fact I think in less than 3000 years God will have already established a New Earth. 

Isaiah 65:17 (KJV) For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.  But what about this man Moses? We read that he “was faithful in all his house, as a servant”  If you don’t read or know anything else about Moses we can know he was a faithful servant. Being a faithful servant he had something “a testimony” now that’s important. What is a “TESTIMONY?” Webster says 

“A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact. Witness; evidence; In Scripture, the two tables of the law.” Do I have a good Testimony as a servant of God?  Is that what others see? How important is our testimony? Read this and see. 

Revelation 12:11 (KJV) And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.  That makes one stop and think. When the fight starts better have a Testimony and better be one like Moses had.

Polycarp was a Christian bishop of Smyrna. 

He was put on trial in Smyrna for his faith in Christ and given the opportunity to deny his faith. This is what he did. He rejected the proposal that was given to him and instead the brave old man said: "For 86 years I have served him, and he has done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my King who saved me?"  The pile was set on fire, and flames surrounded Polycarp’s body without touching or harming the body. Furious pagans saw that the fire failed to consume his body, so they commanded an executioner to pierce the body of Polycarp with a dagger, and so it was finally done. Legend says that blood poured from his chest so profusely that it put out the fire. Polycarp’s testimony still rings out today. What is mine and your testimony saying to others? Is what we have real? What if today we were jailed and asked to deny Christ what would be our response? If the stake, the wood and the fire  were in view what would we do?

Strange Person 🧌

Hebrews 3:1 (KJV) Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers    the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;

Wherefore,(Why, for what reason)

holy brethren, partakers (One who has or takes a part, share or portion in common with others) the heavenly calling, consider (To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination)

 the (This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood) (The) Apostle and (The) High Priest of our   (Pertaining or belonging to us) profession, Christ Jesus;

Here’s the reason brethren, you that have taken part with others in the heavenly calling, fix your mind on and view carefully the Apostle, the High Priest Jesus Christ.

Wow, bless the Name of Jesus, we are not by ourselves in this heavenly calling. Jesus came into this world, to call all that would put their trust in Him as their savior. We read that over and over. 

John 3:16 (KJV) 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. That whosoever (anyone, any person) yes you too..

Luke 19:10 (KJV) For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Oh yes He is looking for you lost in this world on this day at this time. He may come to you by way of another person, who may at first seem odd to you. Asking questions like where do you go to church? If you were to die today do you know where you will go or spend eternity? You know strange questions that you don’t really have an answer to. Oh I know you’ll say something. Maybe like I go to such and such church. To which that person may ask, "Who is the pastor there now?” to which you have no clue. Spend, eternity where??? Can anyone really know that, you might think. Sure you can, that strange person says   1 John 5:13 (KJV) These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Just one qualification. “believe on the name of the Son of God” You might leave that strange person, seeming strange to others also! Why?  

Luke 1:1 (KJV) Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,  I know you don’t want to miss Heaven by something as simple as putting your trust in Jesus Christ the Apostle and the High Priest. How would you feel if some strange looking person came to you and gave you these numbers 8-27-34-4-19-powerball 10 and said play these and win the lotto that is worth 1.5 billion dollars. Let's say you wrote him off as some kind of idiot. Only to wake up the next morning to find that the winning numbers were just what he gave you. How would you feel the rest of your life? Well, miss Jesus and you will feel much worse all through eternity. Think about that! Oh by the way, on January 13, 2016 those were the winning numbers for 1.5 billion. So if that strange looking person had come to you and said “play these numbers 8-27-34-4-19-powerball 10 and you’ll win 1.5 billion. Now if a strange looking person comes to you and says to you except Jesus and you do you’ll get way more than 1.5 billion.