Ecclesiastes12:13-14|The End Of The Matter...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

First, it’s time to decide

Verse 13: “The end of the matter; all has been heard.”

Throughout the book of Ecclesiastes, we’re confronted with the seeming meaninglessness of life.  In his second letter to Timothy, Paul described some people as “always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7). We don’t want to be like that.   

Solomon summarized what this world offers in chapter 1: vanity—all is vanity. Everything under the sun is fading quickly away. It won’t last. So why keep reaching for it? We have an alternative: life under the hand of God. And here at the end of the book, it’s time to become decisive for him. God is asking, “What are you waiting for? 

Look at God’s offer in the gospel. Just one example, John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” When has the world ever offered that? 

He was all in. He still is. And now he’s asking the same of you, for his glory alone. This world disappoints every day, but God won’t. He can’t. He’s God.

Here at the end of this book, God wants you to become decisive for him. You, like I, have sinned and rejected God in the past, but he wants you to receive his offer of complete forgiveness and eternal life because—this is amazing—he wants you in heaven with him forever. You! Little you! Messed-up sinner you! Stumbling-forward you! You!

All you have to do is receive that love with the empty hands of faith. He’ll do the work required in you. His grace will save you. He’s not asking for perfection—he has that for you in Christ. He’s only asking for openness. Can you give him that?

Why not have heaven, with Jesus forever, instead? “The end of the matter; all has been heard.” It’s time to decide. -DM

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Ecclesiastes12:13-14|The End Of The Matter...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

Your life is eternally significant.

This world under the sun won’t tell you that. Only God can. This world builds you up only to let you down. With your eyes focused only on things under the sun, you can’t but help think you don’t really matter in the end. But with your eyes focused on God, he shows just how meaningful you truly are, by his grace and for his glory. Every moment. Every emotion. Every joy. Every pain. Every trial and error. Every sin and sorrow. Every start and stop. Every act of obedience, great and small. It all has meaning. Because God is watching, you have eternal value.

As one commentator says, “The final message of Ecclesiastes is not that nothing matters in the end but that everything matters in the end.” And the proof is here in these two verses. One day, you will stand before God and give an account. He will bring every deed into judgment. It’s only right that he will. He created you. He cares about what happens in your life, and what you do with your life, and he has the right to judge the outcome of your life. One day, very soon, you will report in to him to receive his judgment. Because that day is coming, every day matters for that day.

How we live this day, as every day, will matter on that great and final day.  -DM

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Sitting At The Feet Of Jesus...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

1 Sitting at the feet of Jesus, Oh, what words I hear Him say! Happy place, so near, so precious! May it find me there each day; Sitting at the feet of Jesus, I would look upon the past; For His love has been so gracious, It has won my heart at last.

2 Sitting at the feet of Jesus, Where can mortal be more blest?There I lay my sins and sorrows, And, when weary, find sweet rest; Sitting at the feet of Jesus,There I love to weep and pray; While I from His fullness gather Grace and comfort every day.

3 Bless me, O my Savior, bless me, As I sit low at Thy feet; 

Oh, look down in love upon me, Let me see Thy face so sweet; Give me, Lord, the mind of Jesus, Keep me holy as He is; May I prove I’ve been with Jesus, Who is all my righteousness  -Old Hymnal 

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Die To Self...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

Agonizing without the surrender of self is useless—“There are many souls who wrestle for special victories and special blessings that they may do some great thing. To this end they are always feeling that they must make an agonizing struggle in prayer and tears.…All the agonizing, all the tears and struggles, will not bring them the blessing they long for. Self must be entirely surrendered” (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, p. 165).

And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. Matthew 26:39 KJV

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Surrender...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

When we let everything go, surrender everything and count ourselves as having nothing, then what? Then what will we have? “All things.” Then they cannot take anything away from us; the people who are in that condition, nothing can be taken from them. How is that so?  They cannot take power from us, can they? They cannot take the character from us. They can take earthly reputation, but not our character in Christ.   They cannot take our riches from us; and they cannot take our life from us; for Christ is our life, and they cannot take Him from us. So when we are in this position we have the victory over the world and all its power, to start with.

Therefore preach that gospel, that mystery of God; and what is that?—“Christ in you the hope of glory”; “Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God;” “The unsearchable riches of God.” “Christ and him crucified.” That is what it was; nothing but that.

-Third Angel's Message- A T Jones

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

Who Has Your Hope...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

Where do you place your hope—your real hope. If you are honest, you will realize how much hope is placed in things other than God.

We want financial security. We are obsessed with people’s opinions of us....our reputation. Put bluntly, we have an idol problem.

Whoever has your hope, has your heart.   Wherever we trust for ultimate happiness and satisfaction is where we place our hope. And whatever we place our hope in, has true control of our heart.

Today’s verses are a prayer from David—and he’s expressing this same sentiment when he asks God to “unite” his heart to fear God’s name.

David, like so many of us, was a man who struggled with a divided heart. Even though he was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22) his affections wandered.

That’s the crux, isn’t it?

Every Sabbath we sing songs that agree with verse 10: “For You are great and do wondrous things; You alone are God.” Then on Sunday our hope wanders from the One who is “God alone” and trusts in so many other things. So many idols.

Remember what God said about idols in Isaiah 44:20b? The people “have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.”

And what are David’s words? “Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth…”

Idols lie—they simply can't deliver on their promises.

So, for anything that has your deepest hope, ask yourself these questions:

Will this satisfy my heart, or is it lying to me?

Can this save my soul, or will it leave me empty?

Can this heal my marriage, or will it destroy?

Would I be happy if my children and grandchildren embraced this?

So, who has your hope and your heart today? Pray with David for a united heart.

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖

The Waiting Period...🙏🌿🌼💞🕊

Today's Word:

While you’re waiting for God to answer your prayers or see a promise fulfilled, there will be plenty of tests. When it’s taking a long time, it’s because what God has for you is going to be better than you thought, more rewarding, more fulfilling. Don’t despise the waiting period. God knows what’s best for us. Sometimes we’re waiting because another person who’s involved is not ready. Or we’re waiting because God is getting us prepared to handle the weight of blessing. It’s going to be a big blessing, but it’s going to require greater maturity, greater strength of character. 

We all want everything fast, but God knows when the right time is. You have to trust God’s timing. If it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t been the right time. But when God is ready, all the forces of darkness cannot hold Him back. The key is patient believing when every circumstance says there’s no way. When you do that, God says you will receive all that He promised—not some of it, not most of it, but the fullness of the blessing.

Prayer For Today:

Father, thank You for another beautiful sunrise. Thank You for Your grace which is every breath I take. No matter what I face today with Your help, I know I will be able to survive, overcome and win. Thank You that Your power to strengthen me in times of difficulty is greater than the greatest force that can ever come against me. Thank You that I can patiently believe through the waiting periods. I believe that I am more than a conqueror and will overcome this. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

100% to God = 0% Compromise to the world! 

Happy and Joyful Sabbath as We are filled with this Hope that Burns within Our Heart!

We are United in Christ!  

Jesus is Coming Very Soon!  

PRAISE THE LORD!💖