On Sunday afternoon, there was a great battle.\u00a0 It was the Denver Broncos playing the New England Patriots for the right to go to the Super Bowl in two weeks.\u00a0 But what made the game even better were two very special players playing against each other.\u00a0 Peyton Manning and Tom Brady have played some of the best football games over their storied careers.\u00a0 But this one might be the most special.\u00a0 Why this one over the other epic games they have played against each other?\u00a0 Because this very well might be the last time they play against each other.\u00a0 Life is about beginnings and endings.\u00a0 Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3, “there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up.”\u00a0 My question to all of us is this, are we living and preparing for this to be our last day?\u00a0 Nothing lasts forever including us.\u00a0 In the sermon on Sunday I used this phrase multiple times, “we need to be wise with our time, because we never have as much as we think we do.”\u00a0 I can remember when Peyton Manning and Tom Brady were rookies.\u00a0 Peyton has always been thought of as a great quarterback, but Tom Brady didn’t even start when he got into the league.\u00a0 The only reason we know who Tom Brady is, is because a man named Drew Bledsoe got hurt and Brady had to come in and take his place.\u00a0 It could have easily been a rivalry that never happened.\u00a0 The point is that life takes many interesting and unexpected turns.\u00a0 When you are born everyone talks about how much time you have in front of you, until one day you wake up and realize how much time is behind you, and you struggle to realize how you got where you are.\u00a0 Then in the blink of an eye it is over.\u00a0 Have you prepared for what is next?\u00a0 The Bible teaches that we will all stand before God and give an account for our life.\u00a0 Have we thought about what we are going to say when we stand before Him?\u00a0 Life is too precious to wish it away (an 8 yr old wanting to grow up and be able to drive is an example of wishing your life away) and it goes by entirely too fast.\u00a0 But even worse that wasting or wishing your life away, is not being prepared for your eternity.\u00a0 The only way we can be prepared is to trust Jesus as our Savior, and then live our life for Him.\u00a0 When you have made that decision, then death is no longer something to be feared.\u00a0 It is not the end of you, in fact is will be the beginning of something far greater than we can ever imagine.\u00a0 One more quote from this Sunday’s sermon.\u00a0 “Live today as thought it was your last, because one day you will be right” (I can’t remember who originally said it, but it is a great quote).\u00a0 Are you prepared for eternity?<\/p>\n
By His grace and through His strength may we live for Him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Sunday afternoon, there was a great battle.\u00a0 It was the Denver Broncos playing the New England Patriots for the right to go to the Super Bowl in two weeks.\u00a0 But what made the game even better were two very … Read More