MESSAGE FROM THE ALTARDEVOTIONAL SERVICE 11/07/2021THE MIRROR

ECCLESIASTES 5:8Don’t be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by the one over him, and both are protected by still higher officials.ECCLESIASTES 4:1Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were weeping, and no one would help them. No one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side.(GOOD NEWS BIBLE) This world is temporary. The life you have is God’s gift and it’s not permanent. Everything we have here is transient. We came into the world with nothing and no matter our acquisitions here, we will leave without anything. We were made from dust and the breathe of God and at the end, to dust we must return but the breathe, the soul, returns to God to account for his stewardship as sojourner on earth.” Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.” Genesis 2:7″ You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again ” Genesis 3:19 Death is not the end of this earthly pilgrimage. At the end of times, we shall all be brought before the God Almighty to be judged and rewarded, with paradise or hell. How you live your life here determines where you go in the hereafter. You cannot live a life pleasing to God without Jesus Christ being in control. You cannot live right unless you operate through the Holy Spirit and you cannot have the Holy Spirit unless you belong to Jesus Christ. You use the opportunity God has given you to molest and trample on others just because you don’t have Jesus Christ in your life. You live your life as if you own it just because you don’t have the Holy Spirit working in you. You turn yourself into a god, killing and maiming as dictated by your whims because you have rejected God. Your stinking opulence, amassed through corruption and shedding of blood of the innocent, will only lead you to eternal damnation. The power you use so oppressively to perpetuate so much pain, so much anguish and so much destruction of lives and properties, cannot stop the grim reaper, death, from destroying you when your time is up. It is time to look into the Mirror. It is time for self-examination. It is time to remember that life here is not permanent. It is time to reflect on where we end up on the day of judgement. It is time to stop injustice and our grievous lives of corruption. It is time to love one another. It is time to stand up for Jesus Christ and be numbered among the children of God. Having looked into the Mirror , what do you see ? Are you ready to meet your Creator if death should come now ? If yes, watch and pray that you remain so. If not, it is not too late to make amends:Surrender your life to Jesus Christ now. There are no other names through whom you can be saved. There are no other religious organizations, prophets, creeds or doctrines that can save you from hellfire. Only through Jesus Christ can we receive eternal rest. Look into the Mirror now and take a positive decision: choose Jesus Christ; choose everlasting life with God Almighty. Shalom.