RETIREMENT – – – SHORT TERM – – – L O N G TERM

Retirement – – – Short Term
— someday, if you live long enough
— maybe, unless 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 happens
— everybody get ready, if you have enough money
— save, invest, prepare, live for retirement

Retirement – – – Long Term
— one day, no matter how long you live
— definitely, no maybe
— everybody get ready, no matter how much money
— get ready now, or not ? ? ?

WHERE YOU AT ? – – – WHERE YOU HEADED ?

Do you know the answer to the first question ?
Where are you now, in the things that matter in life, “in the things that are for keeps” ?

Do you know the answer to the second question ?
Where are you going in life, and where are you going after life ?

How ? and Where ? do you get answers ?

Most people try to come up with their own answers.
That may work for many of life’s day-to-day decisions, to be successful, to make it another day, year, decade.
But sooner or later, after a number of birthdays, or crises, or close calls, or funerals of friends and family—who can tell you what you really need to know ?

Over and over people have found that the answers are not found where they were looking.
Everyone is looking for God, and how to please Him.
In desperation, people make up ideas, religions, rituals, and behavior to get right with God.
For one thing, they can’t all be right.
So, one must be right—different than all the rest.

Yes, there is one true God.
And, He told us, in writing, Who He is, and exactly where we are, and where we’re headed—and our condition is not pretty.
But, He told us, in writing and in action, how He fixed that.

“God loved the world so much, that He gave His only dear Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Jesus in the Bible is the answer, the only way to God.
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to God the Father except through Me.”

You can stop searching—you’ve found what you’re looking for.
Talk to Jesus, believe what the Bible says about Him , and believe what He says in the Bible (the two verses above).

Tell Him, “God, be merciful to me a sinner”, and Jesus says you will go home justified before God today.

Where you at ? – – – I’m a forgiven sinner.
Where you headed ? – – – I’m going to heaven.

RESERVES, OR ACTIVE DUTY SPECIAL FORCES ?

Christians, where do you stand ?

Are you safe—or signed up, sold out, for special service, for any service, any cost ?

FORGIVENESS – – – IS ONCE ENOUGH ?

Repent for a sin, once.
Ask God to forgive that sin, once.
Thank God, a thousand times.
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Here’s how forgiveness works:
+ I am a sinner.
+ I sinned.
+ I tell God my sin, specific.
+ I am sorry—I turn from my sin.
+ “God, forgive me.”
+ I am forgiven.
+”Thank You, Jesus.”
+ D O N E ! ! !
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Now, move on, do what God gives you to do—thankful to be forgiven and free.
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Please note this:
I said nothing about forgiving yourself.
God said nothing about forgiving yourself.

AS YOU GET OLDER . . .

As you get older, spiritual matters will matter more.

Why wait ?

Spend time with Jesus now.
Pray often now.
Read your Bible often now.

THE BEST WAY TO STASH FOR THE FUTURE

Is there a plan that is guaranteed, better than any other, for saving stuff for someday ?

If you let that question be known, you will have no lack of responding advisors.

There is a six-point outline, the very best, for permanent benefits, for sure.

1- Do good, anytime, anywhere, with your money and with your time.

2- Seek to be rich, in good works that help people in need.

3- Look for opportunities ahead of time, so you will notice and be ready to give right away when you have a chance.

4- Condition your attitude about your money and your stuff, so you will always be willing to share with anyone.

5- This involves storing up for yourselves for the future—with an entirely different perspective.
The time to come is so much more than the future in this life.

6- How you give and what you do for others and your willingness to share builds a foundation for the times ahead—after all the times ahead are behind you—to lay hold on eternal life.

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“Do good, be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, storing up for yourselves a good foundation for the time to come, that you may lay hold on eternal life.”

“MURDER FOR PAY”—PAY FOR MURDER

In the 340 years of slavery in America, an average of 80 blacks per day became slaves.
This country paid dearly for that, in the Civil War.
As many as 800,000 Americans died.

Today in America an average of 800 blacks per day are murdered.
This country is about to pay dearly for that, in the coming civil conflict between life and death, good and evil, right and left, Christ-followers and Christ-haters.
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Rephrasing Abraham Lincoln’s speech from 1858, for today, after Roe was struck down:
“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half death and half life.”

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Read “HALF SLAVE, HALF FREE” – – – HALF DEATH, HALF LIFE ? on this website, posted the day after Roe was overturned.

CHRISTIANS AGREE ?

How to get to heaven ?—that’s ‘all cut and dried’ ?

How do we get to heaven ?—Yes, that is indeed all cut and dried—all who want to be Christians must agree on this:
+ Admit you’re a sinner.
+ Believe Jesus died for you, to pay for your sins.
+ Ask Jesus to be in charge of all of your life.

That’s how we get to go to heaven.

Now, just how and when will we go to heaven ?
Well, Christians obviously don’t agree on this.
So, what do we do about that ?

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++ Don’t get hung up on differences over the end-time time-line.
++ Don’t ever let proving interpretations overshadow sharing salvation.

JUST GOOGLE IT ?

Just google it—for answers to your every question—right ?

Not so sure.

Whose answers on the almighty internet ?

Not sure.

Who’s in control of unlimited information ?

Who’s in control of me, with the information ?

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OR
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Safe answers.
True information.
Trusted Source.
Dependable.
Forever.

JUST BIBLE IT !

SEARCH

There is over a decade of writing on AWordforThought.com—here are a few key words to type in the search bar (feel free to enter your own topics as well).
Some searches will bring up older articles for you to compare with more recent ones.
Please pay attention to the dates when they were posted.

— volume
— # (prepare to stay awhile, even surprised/inspired me, goes way back)
— stress
— blessings

— life—balanced
— baseball
— senior year
— slavery

— game of life (several articles from a decade ago)
— be there
— forgiveness

— document the disaster
— freedom
— half slave
— oppressed
— senior
— goodness
— abortion
— xi xi ping pong
— all things trans
— humble
— hurry up and wait
— my part
— God what are You waiting for
— sacrifice [lots of articles include this word]
— trinity [if you dare]
— comfortable

— the problem with theologians
— call to prayer
— prisons

— if I was God
— end of the world – or the end of the free
— perfect weather

— America
— if this world is not
— likewise

— evolution of God
— the one God loves