Dig Not Your Own Grave

            Have you ever experienced being lost in an unfamiliar place and it took you all your strength and efforts to finally find your way back? And isn't it plain folly to go back to that now familiar place and go about leading yourself astray again? It is as if you  do not know EXACTLY the right way to go.

            My mind has been bogged lately by the thought that we do learn things the hard way. Slow learners who as if ride a carousel of committing the same mistakes over again.
          
            And the same cycle goes that we neglect what God says we should do, inflicting compromise, feelings of guilt and uneasiness on ourselves and to others.
 
            From your past, what has God dealt with you and He has told you to put death and you find yourself unconsciously resurrecting? What selfish I-want-to-do-list have you been indulging yourself in?

            They say: Old habits die hard; I say: Those who don't get rid of them die easily. How we often dig our own way back to doing things we should not; thus - digging our own grave. Grave - that leads us into death again than the Life Christ desires for us to have.

            And yes, it is an undisputed cycle wherein we get back to our knees in repentance, saying "Lord... I'm sorry, please forgive me."

            The lyrics of the song "From the Inside Out" by Hillsong can be a source of encouragement.

            "A thousand times I've failed,
             Still Your mercy remains
             And should I stumble again,
             I'm caught in Your grace

             It is comforting to be reminded how our Father is very much patient with us and our hardheadedness.

             But I was reminded of one entry on my journal with a sticker of Doraemon geared up for a baseball game, it wrote:

                                          B A C K  TO THE G A M E
              No backing down. No idle time. Time is running. It doesn't wait for anyone.
              I knew I needed to wake up and press on!

              It reaffirmed God's recent impression on me:

              All things in this world, all its pleasures, even the desires and emotions that we have are fleeting and temporary. We invest on things that are of eternal significance.

              It was a heavy message from God to let us see: the end times are not far. It is not to be taken lightly when the current happenings and phenomena second the revelation.

              How have you been storing up riches in heaven? How is your ministry doing? How have you been fulfilling God's purpose in your life? How about the lost souls around you? Or how about your own salvation?

               How are you gonna live in the light of eternity?

            Now is not the time to settle for a carousel of disobedience and double-mindedness, or on digging your way back to your old, dead self. Now is the time to get geared up, back to the game, back to what's important to Him, to what's gonna last forever, to His-to-do-list for you.

               Dig not your own grave, the end is not far.