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Your days are numbered...

1 Correnthians 15:51-53
"51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."

God shapes us and molds us through the life experiences He has planned for us. The trials and tribulations help us grow us closer to God. All the "mini" deaths we experience again and again are tiny samples how the world treats GOD. GOD will help you through it all and BEYOND!!! When our Lord and Savior RAISES us up to our new life we will be even better. INCORRUPTIBLE and IMMORTAL. 

Today we enter into our Lenten study series titled "Lift High the Cross." Today's verses and thoughts are from our Ash Wednesday service titled "Crossover." Who needs Ash Wednesday? It's SO in your face AND ON your face; the sign of the cross made with ASHES! "...for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:19) Who wants to hear this grim news? No one should. Yet, hundreds do, here in our church and in millions of churches around the world!!! 

We need to hear this message. One day you will be dead is The Truth. There are ALL kinds of ways to go; heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, accidents, violence and too many more. We can't wish it away. We have to come to grips with it. Look the bad news in the eyes. It's all too real.
Pick out your pallbearers. 
Your days are numbered. 

The good parts of these daily devotionals are inspired by the sermon at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg Texas. You can watch it by following this link... https://youtu.be/-KeWbeZbgDo
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