Promise, mais pas acquise
La leçon de ce matin: La terre promise, même lorsque nous la recevons de Dieu, elle n’est jamais chose acquise. La vie chrétienne abondante, victorieuse, on peut la perdre aussi rapidement que nous l’avons reçue.
I. Marchez avec Dieu. v. 23
II. Purifiez le temple de Dieu v. 30
On the Style Channel’s Clean House, experts sweep into a cluttered home with the purpose of leaving it more comfortable, attractive, and livable. The experts face the challenges of clothes strewn across the floor, bulging cabinets, closets filled from top to bottom, cluttered countertops, and overflowing kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and living rooms—not a clean room in the house!
The experts’ first step is to take an inventory of all the stuff. Then, decisions are made about what to sell at a yard sale and what to keep. The homeowners try to hold on to favorite clothes from years gone by, childhood keepsakes, and space-taking trivia, but then they yield. They have a yard sale, and the money they earn helps with the makeover. Then the family leaves, and the work begins.
Rooms are cleaned out, redone for more efficiency and attractiveness, and repainted. Curtains are hung, cabinets set in, and walls decorated. When the family returns, nervous anticipation quickly gives way to excitement and laughter. “Thank you, thank you,” the family says amid smiles and tears.
In the spiritual realm, there comes a time for each of us to take inventory of what’s in our hearts, get rid of some things, and do some repairing and remodeling. Like the families on Clean House, we have an expert in remodeling and renovation—Jesus Christ—who can make our makeover an astounding success.
—Ted De Haas, Bedford, Iowa
On the Style Channel’s Clean House, experts sweep into a cluttered home with the purpose of leaving it more comfortable, attractive, and livable. The experts face the challenges of clothes strewn across the floor, bulging cabinets, closets filled from top to bottom, cluttered countertops, and overflowing kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and living rooms—not a clean room in the house!
The experts’ first step is to take an inventory of all the stuff. Then, decisions are made about what to sell at a yard sale and what to keep. The homeowners try to hold on to favorite clothes from years gone by, childhood keepsakes, and space-taking trivia, but then they yield. They have a yard sale, and the money they earn helps with the makeover. Then the family leaves, and the work begins.
Rooms are cleaned out, redone for more efficiency and attractiveness, and repainted. Curtains are hung, cabinets set in, and walls decorated. When the family returns, nervous anticipation quickly gives way to excitement and laughter. “Thank you, thank you,” the family says amid smiles and tears.
In the spiritual realm, there comes a time for each of us to take inventory of what’s in our hearts, get rid of some things, and do some repairing and remodeling. Like the families on Clean House, we have an expert in remodeling and renovation—Jesus Christ—who can make our makeover an astounding success.
—Ted De Haas, Bedford, Iowa
III. Progressez. v.24
At least twelve American multimillionaires are looking forward to life beyond death. Confident in the continued progress of modern medicine, they have arranged for their bodies to be frozen after they have died. They also have set up “personal revival trusts,” which are designed to ensure their present wealth will be waiting for them when they have been resuscitated one hundred or two hundred years in the future.
David Pizer, sixty-four years old, figured that the “roughly $10 million” he left to himself—after all the compound interest has been added in—will make him “the richest man in the world” when he wakes up.
—“Only in America,” The Week (February 3, 2006)