{"id":8034,"date":"2026-06-28T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:46:00","slug":"what-counts-now-then-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"WHAT COUNTS &#8211; NOW &#8211; THEN &#8211; FOR YOU ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What really counts in your life now ?<br>[Need a mandatory pause here, or repeat]<br>&#8220;What really counts in your life now ?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will it count for keeps, forever ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes you ready for your last day, to meet your Maker ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside any dependence on (your) church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside any dependence on family background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside any dependence on your exemplary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside any dependence on your reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside what you think about yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set aside what you think or say about God&#8212;or what you might say to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Set everything aside&#8212;on your last day it will all be set aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will be left, on your last day ? (And we all have a last day coming)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will be left ?<br>&#8212; You<br>and<br>&#8212; Jesus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Jesus will be in charge, covering your case on His terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what are His terms ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything He already said and made perfectly clear and wrote down in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that was available to you in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>God is good and holy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are not good.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are a sinner.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God must punish sin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The wages of sin is death.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God already punished sin, with death.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The death of God&#8217;s Son, Jesus, on the cross paid for sin, all sin, your sin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>God offers forgiveness for all your sin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admit you&#8217;re a sinner and accept His offer, now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus has a Book in heaven&#8212;The Lamb&#8217;s Book of Life&#8212;with names of every person who accepts His offer.<br>If your name is in there, you&#8217;re &#8220;IN&#8221;, wecome into heaven.<br>If your name is not in there, you&#8217;re not in\u2010\u2010\u2010sent to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What really counts in your life now ?[Need a mandatory pause here, or repeat]&#8220;What really counts in your life now ?&#8221; Will it count for keeps, forever ? What makes you ready for your last day, to meet your Maker ? Set aside any dependence on (your) church. Set aside any dependence on family background. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}