Daily Devotional

Church administrators and leaders will face a more severe judgment because we have “keys” to God’s kingdom. People listen to us, and they treat us like gods. We have the power to save and to destroy others. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea.” (Mark 9:42).

When you come to terms with your mortality, you realise it is impossible to waste time (time is eternal), but you can waste your life. Time is unlimited, but your life is limited. Time is an opportunity; like a river, it never flows backwards. Avoid procrastination. Never leave until tomorrow what you can do today. If what takes your time daily doesn’t help you achieve the purpose of your existence, you are wasting your life.

Why did Jesus tell this parable to the man who came to ask for Jesus’s intervention in an inheritance dispute? To assure him that even though he had been cheated, he could still live a very long and happy life. Meanwhile, his greedy brother is like the rich man whose lands yielded abundantly but refused to consider others in his enjoyment plan. If God calls this greedy brother tonight, what becomes of the inheritance he has gathered?