From: "Phil Rembleski" <PHIl@rescuechurchofchrist.org>

To: "1111RESCUEMEMBERS"

Cc:

Sent: Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM

Subject: 11-26-24 THOUGHTS

11-26-24   THOUGHTS

How wonderful to know the future... we can make adjustments to life and live appropriately. We aren’t given the details of our end times, but we surely know the general plan.  This world is not our home!  Holy conduct and godliness is to be our behavior.  We are to guard our stability and hold on to steadfastness.  Our GROWTH in the grace and knowledge of our Lord is expected!  

2Pet 3:11-18    Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,  12  looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! 13  But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells. 14  Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, 15  and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation;  just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16  as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 17  You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, 18  but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

My Prayer:
Father, surely the words from You mind, are eternal and true.  They demand our careful and reverent attention at all times.  Please Father, may our desire to know and follow your ways and You, come from pure hearts of awesome zeal.  May we experience excitement and joy as we come to know You more and more.  Help us rejoice as we see ourselves involved in Your eternal plan to save man.  Empower our part in this effort, that Your word would not return unto You void.       In the name of our Lord and Savior,   Amen.               
(See Isa 55:11)