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     I'm thinking about how to make the most of my time.  When all is over and done and I am standing before God and He is examining all that I've done in my life, all I did not do; how I stood for Him, how I denied Him...  I already know that there is no way I can stand.  If at the end I have earned a small crown with even a gem encrusted in, I'll still be down prostrate on the ground casting my crown, if any, at His feet, crying!, "You are worthy!"

     I yell, I show anger, am angry, I lie. even though I think I am righteous, I'm lazy, I'm selfish, I'm profane, I'm idle, i gossip, i honor myself when i am supposed to be honoring God.  Am i good enough to even give a witness.  I see my faults parroted to my kids.  i catch them swearing the words i used.  i catch them shouting in anger what i shouted to them.  i'm an incapable witness when it comes to the very ones that matter to me.

     As a Christian, I am supposed to seek the lost.  I'm supposed to help the orphaned and widowed.  the orphaned is the one who doesn't have God as their Father.  The widowed is the one who does not know Jesus as their groom.

Comments

[Katie]

I never thought of it that way-- about the orphans and widows. It has a spiritual component as well as the physical (to take care of actual orphans and widows).