Something that Ted Simmons gave to us at church on Sunday morning. It was his communion meditation. I enjoyed it. Hope you do to:


"This is a sermon by Mark Spence of Living Waters about how do you live your dash - the little line between your birth and when you die.

" James 4:14  says 'Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.' 

"Our time on earth is short. These are six points he shared:

1. It’s not about you

"We do not need to be in control, because God is. Everything is working together for our good. Doesn't mean that it's going to be painless or uncomfortable. Whatever happens in life are stepping stones. They are opportunities for us to proclaim God's glory. God is sovereign; He can do whatever He wants. He answers to no one. He is the King of King; Lord of Lords.

2. God knows our actions before we commit the action.

"He knows our temptations, struggles, fears. Charles Spurheon said  'My situation is urgent and I cannot see how I will be delivered from them. Yet this is not my concern. For He who made the promise will find a way to keep it. My part is simply to obey His commands, not to direct His ways. I am His servant, not His advisor. I call upon Him and He will deliver me.;

3. Be faithful with the small things 

"Be faithful; why? Because there is no such thing as a small thing. That small thing in our eyes is the biggest thing that God is requiring of us. Even when we fail we've been forgiven by the only One who can condemn us.

4. Share the gospel

"We are Christian because somebody cared enough to share. Now it's our turn to return the favor. We have been freed up for a purpose.

5. Pick up the pace

"Slow and steady wins the race, but we don't know when death is going to happen. Our finish line could be tomorrow or could be today.

6. Don't waste your dash

"We aren't guaranteed tomorrow. Luke 9: 23 says, 'If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever will save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he were to gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul.' Life is short but death is not the end if we are in Christ. He took our sins with Him when He died on the cross but it cost His Father everything He had. We owed a debt we could never pay. That was total humility and the love He had for us.

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?'" (John 11:25)

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