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

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? 

Kenneth Uptegrove