WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING A MESS (Continuation of Series)

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James 4:17

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

          Eleanor Roosevelt used to say, "One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words.  It is expressed in the choices one makes."

       We will be slaves to God or slaves to sin, that’s what it boils down to.  And that's the analogy Paul lays before us a little further on in Romans, and I paraphrase:

“But now you have passed from the service of sin into the service of God; your business now is to do what pleases God, not what sin dictates.” (Romans 6:18)

       How easy it is to waste our days by pursuing the worthless.  Indeed, look at the last 24 hours.  How many of them were wonderful and worthwhile?  How many were spent in the service of our Lord?

Actually, how do we all, on an average, spend our days?  Someone took the time to provide the answer; to breakdown, as a whole, how we spend our days...during 70 years of living;   On average we spend almost

one third of our life sleeping - that’s 23 years in bed,

work takes up 16 years of our time,

television consumes 8 years,

eating?  we spend 6 years with fork and knife in hand,

travel - 6 years,
leisure - 4.5 years,
illness - though we may spend a lot of time talking about our aches and

              pains, we are sick only about 4 years,

dressing was even timed, and it was found we spend 2 years of our life just

   getting our clothes on and off.

And the most important part of our existence,

religion gets a measly ½ year.

       The Christian writer C.S. Lewis wrote to the problem: “The only thing Christianity cannot be is moderately important.”

       For yes, the tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. (Anon.)

       So I ask two questions:  What do you want out of life?  And what does God want out of your life?

       In Ephesians 5:15 – 17 (Amplified Bible), the Bible says, “Look carefully then how you walk!  Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise, sensible, intelligent people, Making the very most of the time, buying up each opportunity… Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is.”