"Woe;" It's Your Choice To Make

Luke 6:24  

"But woe unto you that are rich! for 

ye have received your consolation." 

   Those are blessed indeed whom Christ blesses, but those are dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! 

The key to this is in Luke 6:24; "ye have received" The word Jesus uses here is used for receiving payment in full of an account. What Jesus is saying is this, "If you set your heart and spend your whole energies to obtain the things which the world values, you will get them, but that is all you will ever get. In other words, literally, you have had it! But if on the other hand you set your heart and bend all your energies to be utterly loyal to God and true to Christ, you will run into all kinds of trouble, you may by the world's standards look unhappy, but much of your payment is still to come; and it will be joy eternal. 

   We are here face to face with an eternal choice which begins in childhood and never ends till life ends. Will you take the easy way which yields immediate pleasure and profit? or, Will you take the hard way which yields immediate toil and sometimes suffering? Will you seize on the pleasure and the profit of the moment? or, Are you willing to look ahead and sacrifice them for the greater good? Will you concentrate on the world's rewards? or, Will you concentrate on Christ? If you take the world's way, you must abandon the values of Christ. If you take Christ's way, you must abandon the values of the world.
   My Friends, It is your choice to make. God wants all His children to be happy and to have what they need, and also more. But if you have more you should in turn, give to the needed, and to the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.     
Amen!

Reading: Devotional Study
                Luke 6:20-24
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry