Making Every Moment Count

[Walter and Deborah]

Monday 4-11-22 2nd. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Abib/Nisan 9, 5782 23rd. Spring Day

My Birthday Is Today 4-11-22

Hello Everyone, and how are you all? 75 years ago I was born in New Orleans, La. 4-11-47
and I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for a saved life.

Love, Walter

Making Every Moment Count

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Read: Matthew 24:36–44 | Bible in a Year: 1 Samuel 17–18; Luke 11:1–28
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Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. Matthew 24:42


The halted hands of a pocket watch in a library’s archives at the University of North Carolina tell a harrowing tale. They mark the exact moment (8:19 and 56 seconds) the watch’s owner Elisha Mitchell slipped and fell to his death at a waterfall in the Appalachian Mountains on the morning of June 27, 1857.

Mitchell, a professor at the university, was gathering data to defend his (correct) claim that the peak he was on—which now bears his name, Mount Mitchell—was the highest one east of the Mississippi. His grave is located at the mountain’s summit, not far from where he fell.

As I ascended that mountain peak recently, I reflected on Mitchell’s story and my own mortality and how each of us has only so much time. And I pondered Jesus’ words about His return as He spoke to His disciples on the Mount of Olives: “So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him” (Matthew 24:44).

Jesus clearly indicates that none of us knows either the moment He’ll return and establish His kingdom forever or when He may summon us to leave this world and come to Him. But He tells us to be prepared and “keep watch” (v. 42).

Tick . . . tick . . . The “clockwork” of our lives is still in motion—but for how long? May we live our moments in love with our merciful Savior, waiting and working for Him.

How are you preparing to meet Jesus? What do you look forward to the most about being with Him?

Loving Savior, please help me to be ready to meet You at any time. Help me to serve You and prepare for Your return today.

INSIGHT
Matthew’s gospel, written primarily to a Jewish audience, is built around Jesus’ five major teaching discourses (chs. 5–7, 10, 13, 18–20, 24–25). Today’s passage is part of the last one, known as the Olivet Discourse because it took place on the Mount of Olives.

It’s the most eschatological (related to the end times) of these five messages. One of the interesting side points is that it’s the only time when Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, is included with Jesus’ so-called “inner circle” of Peter, James, and John (see Mark 13:3). This is ironic because Andrew was one of the first two disciples to follow Christ (John 1:40–41).

Yet he wasn’t usually included with the other three in their private times with Him—such as at the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Mark 5:37), at the transfiguration (9:2–13), and in the inner sanctum of Gethsemane (14:33). Andrew is included only in Christ’s teaching at the Mount of Olives.

By James Banks|April 11th, 2022

Christ, Return Matthew Twenty Four:36-44

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

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Love, Walter and Debbie

Edited April 11, 2022 by Walter and Deborah
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[BeyondET]

Happy Birthday Day! 

[Mama Etna]

God is the one that numbers our days.  We need to make every moment count.

Psalm 90:12-17

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Edited April 11, 2022 by Mama Etna

[Walter and Deborah]

3 hours ago, BeyondET said:

Happy Birthday Day! 

Thank you, 

Love, Walter

[bropro]

3 hours ago, Walter and Deborah said:

My Birthday Is Today 4-11-22

Hope you had a Happy Birthday. 29 right?

Gary

Edited April 11, 2022 by bropro

[Walter and Deborah]

33 minutes ago, bropro said:

Hope you had a Happy Birthday. 29 right?

Gary

No Sir, 75, 4-11-47 

Walter