12-31-2018, 03:32 PM
THE LIVING WATER
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Monday, December 31, 2018
TOPIC: THERE IS AN END
Read: Ecclesiastes 8:1-8
MEMORISE: No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death (Ecclesiastes 8:8).
EXPOSITION
Both the beginning and the end are always at loggerheads. While the former always want to perpetuate itself without end, the latter aspires to takeover and exterminate the former. This is the reality of life. Occupying a post at any level for a long time is pleasing and enjoyable. Nobody who is the occupant wants his reign to know an end.
No wonder there have been cases of leaders in history who have attempted to perpetuate themselves in government of nations. In fact, there are some who have so tyrannically stayed put in government houses of their nations. The irony of life is that all of these have ended up one way or the other, on most cases, very sadly and ingloriously.
Every living human seldom desires the factor called 'end'. Death remains man’s enemy. It brings one’s rule, reign, service, enjoyment, sorrows, wars, illnesses, sufferings, worries, and all other things to an end! No rationally inclined person desires that end should come to his life regardless of how painful, sorrowful and hard the life itself had been. However, there is a necessary and inevitable end to all these things.
Blessed are you, living and reading this dose of the Living Water today. Know that the end will come one day. It is not negotiable. It is same for the powerful and the weak, the small and the mighty, the rich and the poor. It is incumbent on the living to prepare for the necessary end, which comes without giving notice! Rich? Poor? Influential? High? Lowly? Famous? Notorious? Your end is sure.
Accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, and cooperate with His Spirit to do what is just, right and above all, what will earn and qualify you for eternal life with Him, where there is no end. Be wise; follow Jesus to the end, He is way, the truth and the life.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Oh God of grace, assist me to do the needful before I am no more.
2. Teach and help me, Oh Lord, to number my days so that I can keep putting to mind the end, a thing that would moderate my living now.
3. Lord, help those in positions of public fund to continually remember their ends, so that they can do the right things according to Your will and in the interest of the masses they are serving.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Genesis 6 -10
GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY LAST DAY OF THE YEAR 2018.
JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK VERY SOON, BE READY
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Monday, December 31, 2018
TOPIC: THERE IS AN END
Read: Ecclesiastes 8:1-8
MEMORISE: No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death (Ecclesiastes 8:8).
EXPOSITION
Both the beginning and the end are always at loggerheads. While the former always want to perpetuate itself without end, the latter aspires to takeover and exterminate the former. This is the reality of life. Occupying a post at any level for a long time is pleasing and enjoyable. Nobody who is the occupant wants his reign to know an end.
No wonder there have been cases of leaders in history who have attempted to perpetuate themselves in government of nations. In fact, there are some who have so tyrannically stayed put in government houses of their nations. The irony of life is that all of these have ended up one way or the other, on most cases, very sadly and ingloriously.
Every living human seldom desires the factor called 'end'. Death remains man’s enemy. It brings one’s rule, reign, service, enjoyment, sorrows, wars, illnesses, sufferings, worries, and all other things to an end! No rationally inclined person desires that end should come to his life regardless of how painful, sorrowful and hard the life itself had been. However, there is a necessary and inevitable end to all these things.
Blessed are you, living and reading this dose of the Living Water today. Know that the end will come one day. It is not negotiable. It is same for the powerful and the weak, the small and the mighty, the rich and the poor. It is incumbent on the living to prepare for the necessary end, which comes without giving notice! Rich? Poor? Influential? High? Lowly? Famous? Notorious? Your end is sure.
Accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, and cooperate with His Spirit to do what is just, right and above all, what will earn and qualify you for eternal life with Him, where there is no end. Be wise; follow Jesus to the end, He is way, the truth and the life.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Oh God of grace, assist me to do the needful before I am no more.
2. Teach and help me, Oh Lord, to number my days so that I can keep putting to mind the end, a thing that would moderate my living now.
3. Lord, help those in positions of public fund to continually remember their ends, so that they can do the right things according to Your will and in the interest of the masses they are serving.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Genesis 6 -10
GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY LAST DAY OF THE YEAR 2018.
JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK VERY SOON, BE READY