07/13/24 BUILDING YOURSELF UP IN FAITH

07/13/24 BUILDING YOURSELF UP IN FAITH

Opportunities are like building blocks. If you use them rather than bypass them, you strengthen your superstructure and prepare for further development. 

Our opportunities as Christians, building our Christian lives and relationships, include: meditation, study, fellowship, obedience, good works, self denial, worship, praise, prayer (intercession, supplication, petition, confession, repentance, consecration, commitment). 

If you do not take time to engage your opportunities, you may not have a second chance. If you do not take time to engage your opportunities, you will suffer losses later. Your losses will be personal, familial, social, spiritual, natural, and eternal. God is merciful and often extends us grace, even in our failures. But there comes a time when our resistance, rebellion and rejection will end in a sudden cutting off, and that without remedy. 

Taking advantage of our opportunities not only avoids the negative of slothfulness, it secures the positive blessings of success. 

Jude 1:20-21
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.