GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE TO CREATE ME   March 7, 2004:
 

HOW MUCH AM I WORTH TO GOD?

GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE TO CREATE ME

OHHHH…. AND YOU TOO!

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IN YAHWEH OR NOT

In my daily devotional I like to recall the lengths God went to in order to create me.  In short, out of love He created all that is in order to create me.

Astrophysicists tell us that the universe is fine tuned within a 2% tolerance.  Here is why God did this.  If there had been 2% more mass in the universe all the planets would have been like Saturn and Neptune, mostly gaseous. 

If there had been 2% less mass in the universe, then there would have been too much of the heavy metals, making it impossible for there to be water and an atmosphere on any planet.

But this 2% wonder goes much further.  There are 150 different features about planet Earth that had to be within a 2% tolerance for life as we know it to exist on this planet. 

And because of all these measurable, imperial facts, the statistical, mathematical likelihood of there being another planet in the universe that can sustain life as we know it is less than one.

Isn't it glorious that God created the universe so He could create me—so He could create you?  That is how big your God is. 

Can you rejoice in that?

Can you live for Him?

Can you die for Him … Jesus die for you…

     [This information came from a book titled: The Fingerprint of God, by Dr. Hugh Ross]

WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR?     July 30, 2007

Life is not worth living if there is not something you are willing to die for...to lay down your life for.  Life needs a purpose and a passion; otherwise you are a dead man walking. 

But if you believe in something enough to die for it, then you are compelled all the more to live so that you can use your life energies to propagate the thing you would lay down your life for. 

There is but one purpose for life — to prepare for eternity. Life is measurably brief.

Eternity is immeasurably endless. Ignorance alone compels us to trifle with our eternal destiny.

Personally, I don’t want to get over on the other side of eternity and then find out what I SHOULD have known — what I COULD have done — on THIS side of eternity to lay up treasures in heaven.

How about you? Have you discerned the time we now live in? 

Using a Quantum Physics term, we have crossed a threshold into another era. 

We are now in the era that Bible prophecy refers to as the days just prior to the 7 year tribulation period.

Have you discerned yet that we can no longer live the rest of our lives as we have all our lives … up until 2009?

Are you ready for a depression and riots? 

Have you heard the prophetic warning David Wilkerson has given us? 

If you are informed and are realistic, you know that is a probability.

And if you are a Christian, are you ready to live under persecution like our brethren are in Third World countries like Red China do?

TIME!!!  How much time have we got left?

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple.

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of a friend or family member:
LOSE ONE.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

Jesus laid down His life for us, and He is asking us to lay down our lives for Him so that we can have eternal life with Him.

Will you receive Him into your heart today? 

Eternity awaits you.  Where will you spend it?

In heaven?  In hell?  Ask Jesus to forgive your sins and accept Him as your Savior … today.

Shalom.

Kenneth Uptegrove