TODAY'S QUOTE

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"Be assured that, if God waits longer than you

could wish, it is only to make the blessing doubly

precious!  God waited four thousand years, till

the fullness of time, ere He sent His Son.  Our

times are in His hands; He will avenge His elect

speedily; He will make hast for our help, and not

delay one hour too long."

- Andrew Murray

DISTRACTIONS

You have seen the advertisements;
"New life for old computers".

Well, I just happened to have a few old
computers laying around. Sounded good to
me. Also something to try or play with.
So, I ordered one.

I pulled one of the old computers off of the
shell along with an old monitor.  Brought it
into the office and set it up.  It was an old
windows XP.  I found it kind of fun to play
with.

But, but, but.
Would you believe it, it was too old for the
device that speeds up old computers.  In
other words that old computer was even
older than old.  So, I'll have to try the neat
device on one of my newer old computers.

But I was enjoying having another computer
on my "computer bench or desk",  so I decided
to keep it in the office and give it a special
task. [That only makes four computers in the
office.]

After down loading a lot of stuff on the poor
little computer I decided to eliminate a lot of
the programs in the computer that have
nothing to do with the task I gave it.

Would you believe it, the old thing seems
to work a lot faster than it did before.  Why?,
it has less to do.

What is my point?
Our life is like that old computer, loaded down
with a lot of unnecessary clutter.  Look at all
the stuff you have around you.  You spent a lot
of hard earned money and time in acquiring it,
and now you have to take care of it.

Or you have wasted a lot of time and effort on
things that really do not matter to life.

Soon every one of us will be at the end of life.
Then we are going to stand before God and
answer for everything we did in life - whether
we like the idea or not.

I don't know about you.  But I want to get rid

of a lot of the useless things and activities of

life and concentrate on the thing that matters -

Standing before God himself.

USELESS, UTTERLY USELESS

If I were as young as you, my prospective would be 

entirely different.  But, mine is different for this reason.

I had lived out a full life span, then got sick and should

have died.  That would only have been the normal routine.

BUT GOD.  When he enters the picture, everything changes.

But God in his mercy choose to restore a measure of health

to me.  So a number of years latter I am still "plugging" along.

Now when you are living on "borrowed" time things look a 

lot different.  And nearly everything is now viewed from a 

different prospective.  The prospective that everything I do,

think, or use is something that I use for my "eternal reward" 

and will have to give an account of, or it will be squandered.

This causes me to be overwhelmed by the squandering of 

time and resources I see by people who should know better.

Present time and resources that could be used for their own

eternal benefit, but instead squandered for the fun or pleasure

of the moment.  The reality is, that makes their time and 

resources - useless, utterly useless - when it could have been

better for them used other ways.

A little different thought.  But over a full life time of seeing

many people receiving "inheritances" I have notice that 

nearly all of them get squandered.  Dad and mom should have

used the inheritance on themselves because the kids are just

going to throw them away anyway.

God gives everyone of us; life, time and some resources,

no matter how meager.  Am I using them for God's purposes

and my eternal benefit or for the moment?

If I am using them only for the present time I am turning 

them into something that will be "useless, utterly useless.