What if God couldn't take the time to bless us today because we couldn't take the time to thank Him yesterday? What if God decided to stop leading us tomorrow because we didn't follow Him today? What if we never saw another flower bloom because we grumbled when God sent the rain? What if God didn't walk with with us today because we failed to recognize it as His day? What if God took away the Bible tomorrow because we would not read it today? Such wouldn't bother some at all! What if God took away His message because we failed to listen to the messenger? Such wouldn't bother some at all! What if God stopped loving and caring for us because we failed to love and care for others? What if God would not hear us today because we wouldn't listen to Him yesterday? What if God answered our prayers the way we answer His call to service? What if God met our needs in the way we give Him our time for prayer? Some never pray at all—they claim to be busy.
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"If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready, He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His deadly arrows, fiery shafts," (Psalm 7:12-13 NASB). The Psalmist helps us to understand what our Lord said in Luke 13:3 "Unless you repent, you will perish." We are introduced to a person who obviously does not care about God's judgment, and is continuing in wickedness. God will justly punish the wicked for all that they have done (vs. 8-11). Each of us needs to realize the severity of God's judgment that we may better appreciate the opportunity that God has given to us to repent.

There are some who persist in doing evil and wonder why things do not go well with them. They fail to turn away from their wickedness when they continue in it again and again. How long is the Lord supposed to put up with them? The Psalmist says that God has made His weapons ready, and they are deadly. The evil that one persists in doing will come upon him (Psalm 7:16). Don't you get caught in God's line of fire. Repent while you have the chance! (Charles Spense of Atlanta, GA).

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The Bible teaches that humans shouldn't murder each other (Romans 13:9). Yet many could care less about what the Bible has said about murder; these evildoers are going to kill someone anyway. A man shouldn't murder his wife, yet many men have done so. They cite pregnancy, the wife was too bossy, the wife was getting too fat, wife was aging too quickly, etc. This and more, one can hear, and murderers think these reasons give them the right to kill. After the murder, these killers know they are wrong because they try to cover up the crime. However, God isn't mocked, a man will reap what he sows (Galatians 6:7-8).

Have you ever been amazed at how the perfect murder always had some little clue left undetected by the killer, that allowed the crime to be exposed to the world. For example, here is something we all have heard on the news at one time or another. A person is murdered and dumped in a body of water, only to have a fisherman or some act of nature like the wind currents or rising or decreasing of water, reveal the body. Be assured that just didn't happen by chance—it happened because God is sick and tired of killers. He proves the killer who thought himself smarter than the police, ends up being more stupid than a mule (Job 5:12-13, Proverbs 26:27). Best advice is not to murder someone. If you don't like a person, stay away from him! You don't have to kill!
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Many say they are pleased with their lives, so don't bother speaking to them about God. Now it is possible for a person to be satisfied with his life, and be displeasing to God (2 Samuel 11:27, Proverbs 14:12, Isaiah 55:8-9). For there are many drunks, crack heads, and sorry persons who leech off others, and they are very pleased with their life. Now, does such conduct make these people right? Do you think God is pleased with them? Should they continue that life because they are satisfied with it?

In Luke 18:18-25, we read of a rich man who walked away from Christ because he was pleased with his lifestyle and didn't want to do what the Lord required of him in order to become one of the disciples. Did that make this man right? He certainly must have been satisfied with his life, because he refused to change. This didn't make him right and neither will satisfaction alone make us right. What makes us right is complete obedience to God's word and relying on it to be our guide (Psalm 119:105, Acts 17:11, 1 John 4:1, John 5:39, James 1:22-25).

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