I will conduct a seminar for the Baptist State Convention of Illinois this Saturday at United Baptist Church, 4220 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago. I solicit your prayers that God would speak through me to bless His people and glorify Himself through the session.
Larry
Monday, February 16, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Monday's Meditation - February 09, 2009 - Our Preparation For Eternity
A new podcast has been published to the More Than The Gift website and iTunes Store:
Our Preparation For Eternity
In his recent best seller, The Treasure Principle, Randy Alcorn offers insight regarding how our handling of material possessions reveals the relative value we place on time and eternity. He portrays eternity as an endless line and time as a dot on that line. Given the insignificance of the dot when compared to the immeasurable length of the line, he suggests that a wise person should conduct their lives in light of line rather than the dot, in light of eternity rather than time. Two illustrations help clarify his point. First Randy suggests that most of us would think it odd if during an airplane flight, a passenger placed expensive draperies over the windows, hung pictures on the cabin wall and began redecorating the restroom. Someone expending so much effort to get comfortable on an airplane would puzzle us because both the duration of the flight and their residence on the plane would be relatively brief. It would seem a waste of resources to treat as permanent that which was clearly temporary.
Next Randy asks us to imagine that we lived in a southern state (that was part of the confederacy) as the civil war was coming to an end and victory by the Union soldiers was imminent. Randy points out that as the time of our living under the rule of one governmental system was coming to an end, it would make sense that we would be vigilant in preparing to live under the system that would replace it. Prudence would suggest that we convert as much confederate currency as possible to things that would be of value after the war ended because at the war’s end confederate currency would be worthless. So while a portion of our resources would continue to be used to sustain us, we would also urgently begin diverting resources in preparation for the transition.
While most of us like to think that we behave rationally, I have concluded that many of us spend our time decorating airplane cabins while not preparing to ever leave the plane and go home. Many of us spend our lives accumulating things without considering that they will soon become worthless. Many of us exhaust our life’s time and life’s resources without ever preparing for our inevitable transition from time to eternity.
This podcast is a continuation the series of podcasts regarding the theme : "What Our Giving Accomplishes".
As always, I invite you to receive Monday’s Meditation as “food for thought “ for the week, then let it become “fuel for action” for the weekend and beyond.
The is audio podcast is available on my website: morethanthegift.net and the iTunes Store. Links are provided in the "Additional Resources" section of this blog. if you don't have iTunes on your computer, a link is provided below to download the iTunes software.
After listening to the podcast in the iTunes Store, I encourage you to offer a review and to send an invitation to a friend or loved one to listen also.
A separate link for the podcast website is also provided .
Use this blog for your comments, questions and testimonies regarding the episode.
Keep praying with me!
Our Preparation For Eternity
In his recent best seller, The Treasure Principle, Randy Alcorn offers insight regarding how our handling of material possessions reveals the relative value we place on time and eternity. He portrays eternity as an endless line and time as a dot on that line. Given the insignificance of the dot when compared to the immeasurable length of the line, he suggests that a wise person should conduct their lives in light of line rather than the dot, in light of eternity rather than time. Two illustrations help clarify his point. First Randy suggests that most of us would think it odd if during an airplane flight, a passenger placed expensive draperies over the windows, hung pictures on the cabin wall and began redecorating the restroom. Someone expending so much effort to get comfortable on an airplane would puzzle us because both the duration of the flight and their residence on the plane would be relatively brief. It would seem a waste of resources to treat as permanent that which was clearly temporary.
Next Randy asks us to imagine that we lived in a southern state (that was part of the confederacy) as the civil war was coming to an end and victory by the Union soldiers was imminent. Randy points out that as the time of our living under the rule of one governmental system was coming to an end, it would make sense that we would be vigilant in preparing to live under the system that would replace it. Prudence would suggest that we convert as much confederate currency as possible to things that would be of value after the war ended because at the war’s end confederate currency would be worthless. So while a portion of our resources would continue to be used to sustain us, we would also urgently begin diverting resources in preparation for the transition.
While most of us like to think that we behave rationally, I have concluded that many of us spend our time decorating airplane cabins while not preparing to ever leave the plane and go home. Many of us spend our lives accumulating things without considering that they will soon become worthless. Many of us exhaust our life’s time and life’s resources without ever preparing for our inevitable transition from time to eternity.
This podcast is a continuation the series of podcasts regarding the theme : "What Our Giving Accomplishes".
As always, I invite you to receive Monday’s Meditation as “food for thought “ for the week, then let it become “fuel for action” for the weekend and beyond.
The is audio podcast is available on my website: morethanthegift.net and the iTunes Store. Links are provided in the "Additional Resources" section of this blog. if you don't have iTunes on your computer, a link is provided below to download the iTunes software.
After listening to the podcast in the iTunes Store, I encourage you to offer a review and to send an invitation to a friend or loved one to listen also.
A separate link for the podcast website is also provided .
Use this blog for your comments, questions and testimonies regarding the episode.
Keep praying with me!
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