24 hours a day, for everyone the same. Our beliefs, actions, and inaction make the hours yield differently for each and every one of us.
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Knowing Who you are as a Being with God’s image and likeness, who must reflect God’s goodness outward to the world, is the first step in doing well with every 24 Hours of your earthly existence.
Also knowing you are to sojourn back to the Spiritual world hereafter to account for yourself before the almighty Creator God, should endear you to focus on godly ways of living within every 24 Hours of your life, given to you as a precious gift by God with love.
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Let us not be like some who use the hours only for their advantage; scheming, oppressing, hurting, and mistreating others to have their way. For them, it is all or nothing, it’s just “me, myself, and I”.
Let us rather be like those who are compassionate and selfless in loving and caring for others – family or not – like they do for themselves.
Every 24 hours of the day used only for one’s interest makes one less a human being, self-centered and wicked.
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We have the option to either follow our creator’s command to love Him with our hearts, minds, and souls and show this love in the love of others, as in the love of ourselves (physically and spiritually). To do otherwise and go against our Father and Creator by loving Self only within our allotted earthly lifetime means willful separation from our Almighty Creator and God of the whole universe.
Any option we decide to choose with our FREE WILL has ripple effects and consequences in both the physical world we are in and hereafter in the spiritual world; created by the infinite Supreme Being, owner of the universe.
Yes! believe it or not, there is a Spiritual more important World, after our time here on earth.
Some may argue and say it’s difficult to love God and believe in Him still in the face of trials, multiple failures, and disappointments in life. While some when wealth, fame, and power increase, they assume they achieved these feats all by themselves with their own wisdom, strength, and hard work and they then believe in Godless and stop reverencing Him, becoming ungrateful and arrogant. They even become their own God and want or force others to see them as God reverencing them instead of the Almighty Creator.
While others not being able to make up their minds to accept who they are, and the path chosen for them by their creator; misuse their blessed hours to live their lives imitating other people’s lives, wanting to be like others, coveting what they have regardless of their own many blessings from God.
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Some others, more than we think, try to make each 24 hours count for good despite the daily struggles, obstacles, disappointments and hurt by just doing their best to reflect their love for God in loving themselves and others as well, being grateful and contented with the daily gift of God’s mercy, blessings and grace showered on them and they do well to feed their soul by acts of kindness, making others happy. With these their allotted 24 hours, their days count for good. We should do the same…
And we do not need to do much, we just need to reflect our love for God in the way we individually treat ourselves and others. Be reminded that all Humans have God’s image and likeness in their being, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
To love means to give of your time to listen to others, help others; to give some of what you have to the needy. To show act of kindness and be sensitive to the needs of people. To treat people with respect and dignity, to lend a helping hand whichever way you can; without a condition. Thus imitating The Creator of the universe, whose Sun rises and sets all over the world regardless of what humans do.
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Our lives are fulfilling only when shared loving others as well as ourselves. If each of us makes our 24 Hours count for good by loving and caring for one another, then we all will have fulfilled and joy-filled earthly lives and happiness beyond our mind stretch in the hereafter Spiritual World.
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Love of self involves caring for both your physical and spiritual self. Do you overindulge yourself in food, drinks, and immoral pleasures, detrimental to the gift of good health? What about your soul? Is it neglected and poisoned by your acts of wickedness, hatred, jealousy, covetousness, greed, immorality, falsehood, and oppression of the poor and needy?
Believe it or not, as every 24 Hours passes, you get closer to your last Hour in this earthly life; you know not when your allotted time will stop, this is inevitable, the hour must come. What is your record? Are your hours counting for good each day?
Know this Truth; that our Creator and Father records every hour since He sees and knows everything about you and me. Our thoughts, what we say and do each day. Every 24 Hours is given to you and me as a gift to do good until the last hour before we sojourn to meet Him, the Supreme Being, to give an account of our stay here. A trip so real and inevitable, a time you and I do not know. It may be within the next 24 Hours!
What you stand to gain is beyond what you can comprehend. If every 24 Hours of the allotted hours you have left count for good.
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So, let you and I, try and make the hours count for good, for the next hours may not be in our allotted scheduled time. Do not be deceived by anyone who claims to see your tomorrow, for their own tomorrow is not known to them. Only the ONE who created all things in Heaven and earth knows; since He alone sets the Hour “But of that day and hour knows no man, not the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but My Father only” (Matthew 24:36) This hour, is what we have and know now, let’s make it count, let’s live in truth and love.
Only those with a pure heart through Jesus Christ will see God.
“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” (Revelations 22:14)
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If you are not careful for yourself to live in love this hour; who will for you?
LON
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