Woop woop! I've got a new record! And by that I don't mean I've brought out a chart-topping music album, however, if I were to bring out an album it would definitely be chart topping (failure charts)- a mix of rap and country I reckon... hmm, I might consider doing that.
No no! I'm talking about how the other morning when I broke one of my personal records and created for myself a new personal best- I'm always striving to do better and be the best, but didn't really see this one coming, furthermore- I don't know whether it will really be viewed as a positive new record...
Basically, I managed to stay up until 5.45am working on an essay- and finished it! Now tell me, is that sad? Is that good stewarding of time? I hadn't really thought about it- however, what did occur to me is this idea of getting things done in time. Striving to do better and reaching our targets...
I was reading in Acts last week after wanting to find out about the source of communism, and it led on to describe the day before the great and glorious day of the Lords arrival. It says the sun will become dark and the moon will turn a blood red. Now that totally freaked me out because every night the sun goes dark giving way to the moon, and often the skies are blood red
"red at night, shepherds delight" -farmers and shepherds would say that this is the sign of a brilliant next day. So next time I see a blood red sky I am going to be thinking, "tomorrow could be the day, the delightful day when Jesus returns to sort out the good and bad in this world". However, I'm sure all who know the word will know when the day of judgement is about to arrive.
But it got me thinking, if it was tomorrow when Jesus comes back onto this earth, who's going to heaven and who's not. Who will I see again? But I want everyone to get this awesome gift of eternal life given by the grace of God- if I knew I had one day before Jesus arrived I would certainly be out there telling everyone that they need to understand the truth.
The other truth is that we don't know when it's going to be, it could be tomorrow- so why am I sat here at this computer typing about it- shouldn't I be out there talking about it- whoops, I think I just gave myself a challenge- that's it, grab the stool and Bible and hit the streets of Plymouth-
Wait a minute, Chelsea are playing West Ham in 6mins, that's a better opportunity to evangelise through fellowship- I think I'll do that instead.
We've got a target to reach, the issue is we don't know our timescale- how long we've got to do this assignment, in which case, we better be getting on with it now.
I gave my flat mate a couple of paracetemol earlier, her way of thanking me was by saying "lifesaver"- people need to know the truth about life saving... I'm off- come on God, we're going to win this match today and everyday.
