OUR DAILY BREAD : SEIZE THE DAY

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May 17
Saturday


SEIZE THE DAY

READ:
Hebrews 3:7-15
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My times are in Your
hand. __Psalm 31:15
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Before entering the broadcasting field, Jim Valvano led the North Carolina State University basketball team to a national championship. Then cancer developed in his lower back. Invited to address the Duke University squad, Jim had this to say: "Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it."

God gives us an urgent directive in Hebrews 3:13, "Exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." Why is there such a strong insistence on today?

It may be that today, this very day, could be the last one in our time here on earth. Today may be your last opportunity to accept God's gift of salvation, or if you know the Lord already, to share His love with a friend or loved one.

James has this warning about presuming upon our tomorrows: "You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" (4:14).

Seize the opportunities that God gives you today. That's sound advice--not just for basketball players, but for all of us.
__Vernon Grounds
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```````````````Redeem the time__God only knows`````````````````
````````````````How soon our little life may close;`````````````````
````````````````As every passing moment flows,``````````````````
```````````````````Redeem the time! __Anon.````````````````````
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Plan as though you'll be living for a century;
live as though you'll be leaving today.

*****************Today's Bible Reading __ Hebrews 3:7-15*********

7 Therefore, as the Holy
Spirit says:

"Today, if you will hear
His voice, 8 do not harden
your hearts as in the
rebellion, in the day of trial
in the wilderness, 9 where
your fathers tested Me, tried
Me, and saw My works forty
years. 10 Therefore I was
angry with that generation,
and said, 'They always go
astray in their heart, and they
have not known My ways.'

11 So I swore in My wrath,
'They shall not enter My
rest.' "

12 Beware, brethren, lest
there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief in departing
from the living God; 13 but
exhort one another daily,
while it is called "Today,"
lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of
sin. 14 For we have become
partakers of Christ if we
hold the beginning of our
confidence steadfast to the
end, 15 while it is said:

"Today, if you will hear His
voice, do not harden your
hearts as in the rebellion."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

"For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time
and then vanishes away" (James 4:14). On a cold day, our breath
becomes clearly visible. The process of exhaling produces a white
vapor that appears for a moment and then quickly disappears. Since
God breathed the breath of life into man and man fell into sin
each person's life-breath will eventually end in death. Thhis temporal
reality should cause us to number our days in serving God (Ps.
90:12). __Dennis fisher