YOUNG AND OLD IN THE LAST HOUR

YOUNG AND OLD IN THE LAST HOUR TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13–14). DAILY FIRE! “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord” (Psalm 118:17). I am eternally grateful that I was a young man when Christ Jesus entered my heart and called me into His service. I knew that He had called me to be His servant; and I have never regretted a single moment, a single day of my life of service to Him.  The response to His gift of salvation and then the response to His call for service: these are important milestones in the lives of all believers, young or old.  The awareness that we are living in “the last hour” (1 John 2:18), is also pressing on our hearts, motivating us to “be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” (James 1:22). Young people have a slightly different status in the same last hour, however. When an old person gets saved, a soul gets saved.  When a young person gets saved, both a soul and a lifetime are saved. The young person has an hour that could be a lifetime, and what a glorious hour that can be!  An hour full of love, joy, peace, purpose, and security, even if the last hour lasted an entire lifetime. The only way to live tomorrow is to live in faith and activity for Jesus today. Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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