“This is what I want to do today,” or “What would you have me to do today Lord?”
“My will be done,” or “Thy will be done.”
Some of you, if not most, would agree with the second statements in these two sentences, most of you would agree to the truth of Galatians 2:20,
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
But how many of you would agree to these words?
“My life is immaterial, it means nothing to me, each moment is not my own, I have no value outside of Christ.”
Puts it in a little different perspective, doesn’t it?
Shall we sum it up in one singular verse?
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Phil. 1:21)
If you want anything outside of the will of God, you are not living in that moment for the Lord Jesus Christ, if you fear death, not just in the moment of its arrival, but in the manner your Father in heaven has determined for it to happen, then dying is not gain to you.
You must understand the truth that the wicked rarely, if ever, entertain any thoughts of the Almighty, to them to live is to seek personal enjoyment in any manner they can, it is to live as long as possible, for death to them is the cessation of everything.
“If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” (1st Cor. 15:19)
Did that verse from Philippians enter into your mind each time you put that mask on before you stepped outside? Did it come into your thoughts as you rolled up your sleeve, as you social distanced, as you watched the news waiting for the “all clear” so you could live for Christ again, and stop fearing about death?
Will you claim that your life was immaterial to you in those days? Did it take all those lies for you to learn your lesson and repent in dust and ashes with a broken and contrite heart? Or is death not gain to you yet?
I have news for you my friends, on the stage of the world, that was just phase one, the opening act, soon enough the curtain will open again, and the second part of the performance will begin. Will you once again say, “Thy will be done, unless I fear?”
I would pray that you have been blessed with enough Spiritual discernment to understand that slowly and subtlety the brute beasts must be herded to the desired end, that the fulfillment of these days and those that are approaching are found in Revelation 13:16.
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:”
If you believed it was living for Christ as you hid behind that mask and agreed to lock those doors, then you are to be pitied, for by your actions you proved that death was not gain to you. And then only upon the first act of the performance.
What have you determined to do when the curtain is opened and part two of this leading to the death of billions begins, have you learned your lesson, or are you still deceived, do you still hold fast to those excuses, calling them viable reasons?
“My life is immaterial to me, until the truth of my possible death becomes a reality.”
“For me to live is Christ, as long as there are no serious trials, tribulations or persecutions, and to die is gain, as long as it is when I am very old, had an opportunity to live my life as I pleased, and I die in my sleep without pain.”
“Of whom the world was not worthy:” (Heb. 11:38a)
When the curtain opens again, you will have a second chance and that verse from Philippians will enter your mind. You will reveal to yourself if you are profitable or unprofitable, and you will hear this verse in your mind as well.
“And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.” (Job 2:4)
