Important Days...

Dear fellow believers, today is an IMPORTANT DAY (for me anyway), it's my son's first birthday! Needless to say we have marked this important occasion with lots of celebrations, as you do on a special day.

It put me in mind of some thoughts I had regarding 3 important days that the Bible speaks of. I think I found the references on a laminated text card one day and it made for the foundation of a simple gospel message, no doubt you can add your own thoughts and maybe even think of ways to expand the framework by adding other 'days' you may think of! Feel free to add your comments and suggestions underneath this post.

A Day of Death - Genesis 27:1-2

"...I know not the day of my death."

These sombre words were spoken by Isaac when he was an old man and of course Isaac was intimating that because he was old his death was imminent, but the statement is true of all men and women - life is uncertain and brief at best! Generally speaking no one can truly know the day of their death. God however has numbered our days, he knows our beginning and end! The lesson here is that death is certain, as the Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death and all have sinned. We must be prepared for eternity, we must get right with God while we have the opportunity!

A Day of Salvation - 2 Corinthians 6:2

"...behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."

This is good news - men and women are living in a day of opportunity today! The Lord Jesus Christ has made possible a way of salvation by dying for sin on the cross of Calvary. The Bible would tell us that "neither is there salvation in any other" God's so great salvation is found exclusively in a person, the person of his son the Lord Jesus. What an encouragement for those of u that share the gospel, we are living in a day of salvation, made possible through Christ and found exclusively in him. No confusion, no grey areas, if we want to get saved we must have dealings with the Lord Jesus Christ! As with all days though they came to an end, and so we must preach the gospel with urgency and sincerity as we know the day of grace will one day close.

A Day of Judgement - Acts 17:30-31a

"...Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world..."

The Word of God makes it very clear that God will one day judge the world, and for the purposes of such a message I view it simply as man being held accountable for his sin. Make no mistake about it God is righteous and must judge sin, let us always be clear with that in our gospel preaching! Let us never water things down or preach an unbalanced gospel where we focus almost exclusively on the love of the Lord Jesus and that we should "ask him into our hearts" - let us never forget that Christ died for sin and God views sin very seriously. He hates all iniquity and if we are to be saved we must repent of it or God will judge us for it as our verse makes clear. God's Word consistently labours the holiness and righteousness of God and the Lord Jesus certainly spoke a lot about the judgement of sin, and for good reason such is the awfulness of that judgement. Let us reflect this in our gospel preaching!

We who are believers however can rejoice in the goodness and grace of God as he has "delivered us from the wrath to come" Praise God!

We trust these thoughts will be a blessing to us, please add your comments as you feel free below.

Yours in Christ