TIME PASSES AND CANNOT BE RECALLED

TIME PASSES AND CANNOT BE RECALLED

DAVE HUNT

Once again we have entered upon a new year welcomed with wild celebrations at midnight, December again we have entered upon a new year welcomed with wild celebrations at midnight, December 31. Such festivities are questionable at best. And why celebrate the reminder that, just as a year has vanished into the past, so all too quickly must our earthly lives pass as well? That fact should bring sober contemplation and prayer rather than loud rejoicing.Time passes and cannot be recalled. The poet wrote of her memory running "like a hunted thing down paths I cannot retrace." Time is mysterious, beyond our ability to fathom. We know some things about time, but what it really is eludes our most advanced science. Essential for change and motion in the physical universe, time will be absent in eternity. Nothing changes or ages in eternity; it is one eternal now, impossible for us at present to comprehend.

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F.Z.KJV 1 Corinthians 15:55 O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory?
KJV Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy des truction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Eccl.12...live before the eyes of the LORD...then this verse will be your comfort...Rom.14:8..whether we live or die, we belong to the LORD. SO whether we live or die, we belong to the LORD!" John 11:25..to be with CHRIST JESUS IS FAR BETTER THAN THIS LIFE...Phil1:21-23.

We have place this text in Phil. on the grave stone of our only boy who died 2years ago..he was 9 years old..so full of LIFE AND ENERGY..God has blessed him with everything in this life..people would have said..and they did: WHY HIM? HE HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL..My dream for him was that he will proclaim the gospel of JESUS CHRIST with boldness..He had all the potential - one friend called him 'little John the Baptist' eating all kinds of raw fish, so happy in nature..loved the basics in life , free! ..and God changed his little heart miraculous in a visable period of 6 months before the accident (do not know were it all started) He was so aware of the FACT that he must stand before CHRIST JESUS...SOON..and are not prepared...this little boy who lived like "Dennis the menace'...suddenly had a vision of eternity and an urgency for a new heart..even prayed at meal times.."LORD..PLEASE CHANGE MY HEART"... forget to pray for the food...walking from a cricket game..his first words, 2 weeks before his accident.."MOM, please tell me, how can I be sure I am born of GOD"...such a urgency...we shared and prayed and trusted the LORD...not knowing what lay before us...but GOD's SOVEREIGN RULE HAS BURNED INTO OUR HEARTS AND HEADS AND SOUL...Rom.8:28-30. ALL THE MATTERS IS THE CONDITION OF YOUR SOUL...it will live for all eternity..in hell or with the LORD

L.F.Very true indeed.It's an imperfect world until the day of judgement.God knows the reasons behind everything in life.Jesus says,"Believe in me and you are saved".God bless

SPERANTA.vol 7 ~ Inc-un an

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ATRECUT INCA UN AN-SPERANTA

SPERANTA A trecut inca un an

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S-a mai dus un an din viaţa noastră,

Iar cel ce-ncepe poate fi chiar ultimul.

Sau prima zi, sau doar pe la fereastră,

Să treacă iute în ceasul morţii tiptil.

Ce va fi în anul ce spre noi vine,

Nu ştim şi nici nu putem s-anticipăm.

Dar poate e anul când Isus revine,

Clipa ce o dorim şi mult aşteptăm. Aleluiaaaaaaa

RESOLUTIONS-Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God’s help, I do humble entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake. [I will] remember to read over these Resolutions once a week:

1. Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration; without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriads of ages hence.

2. Resolved, to do whatever I think to be my duty, and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general.

3. Resolved, Never to lose one moment of time, but to improve it in the most profitable way I possibly can.

4. Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.

5. Resolved, Never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

6. Resolved, Never to do anything out of revenge.

7. Resolved, Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonour, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

8. Resolved, To study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

9. Resolved, Never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession which I cannot hope God will accept.

10. Resolved, To ask myself, at the end of every day, week, month, and year, wherein I could possibly, in any respect, have done better.

11. Resolved, Never to give over, nor in the least to slacken, my fight with my corruptions, however unsuccessful I may be.

12. Resolved, After afflictions, to inquire, what I am the better for them; what good I have got by them, and what I might have got by them.

13. Resolved, Always to do that which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.

14. Let there be something of benevolence in all that I speak.

From the Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1

EU NU SANT DE PE PAMANT

Eu nu sunt de pe pamant

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Speranta si prietenii Eu nu sunt de pe pamant_ELIM TIMISOARA

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EU SANT UN OM(Un timp de o zi Isuse)-Darius

Darius - Eu sunt un om (Un timp de o zi Isuse

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WILLIAM MACDONALD A PRAYER AT THE BEGINING OF A NEW YEAR

WILLIAM MACDONALD

The following is from former Berean Call board member William MacDonald, who died 3 years ago. Dave Hunt sent this note from Bill out around New Year's Day in years past:

As we come to the beginning of another year, we would do well to make the following prayer requests our own:

Lord Jesus, I rededicate myself afresh to You today. I want You to take my life this coming year and use it for Your glory.

I pray that You will keep me from sin, from anything that will bring dishonor to Your Name.

Keep me teachable by the Holy Spirit. I want to move forward for You. Don't let me settle in a rut.

May my motto this year be, "He must increase; I must decrease." The glory must all be Yours. Help me not to touch it.

Teach me to make every decision a matter of prayer. I dread the thought of leaning on my own understanding. "O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps" (Jer. 10:23).

May I die to the world and even to the approval or blame of loved ones or friends. Give me a single, pure desire to do the things that please Your heart.

Keep me from gossip and criticism of others. Rather, help me to speak what is edifying and profitable.

Lead me to needy souls. May I become a friend of sinners, as You are. Give me tears of compassion for the perishing.

Lord Jesus, keep me from becoming cold, bitter, or cynical in spite of anything that may happen to me in the Christian life.

Guide me in my stewardship of money. Help me to be a good steward of everything You have entrusted to me.

Help me to remember moment by moment that my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. May this tremendous truth influence all my behavior.

And, Lord Jesus, I pray that this may be the year of Your return. I long to see Your face and to fall at Your feet in worship. During the coming year, may the blessed hope stay fresh in my heart, disengaging me from anything that would hold me here and keeping me on the tiptoes of expectancy. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!