Do IT Now! #2

The Lord said to me,.."I will test my people with a plumbline. Amos 7:8 (TLB)

The Plumbline is a blog to encourage the Body of Christ.

Do IT Now! #2

Best Friend - P. Bongiorno - Desk Motto

James 4: 14 How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow? For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog-now you see it; soon it is gone. TLB .

WHAT IF..You were told that you had only six months to live--What would you do?  What changes might you make in your life? You might write letters to friends expressing your appreciate and love for them. Perhaps you would seek out people whom you have wronged and ask for forgiveness. The bad news might jog your memory of an old debt and thus you would repay that which has been overlooked.  What might be the first thing you would do tomorrow? 1 Chron 29: 15 For we are here for but a moment, strangers in the land as our fathers were before us; our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon, without a trace. TLB

THE POINT DEAR FRIEND IS, DON'T WAIT TILL YOU ONLY HAVE SIX MONTHS TO LIVE.  DO IT NOW!

JESUS HAS GIVEN US A GLORIOUS GOAL

John 15:7-8 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. NIV

THOMAS CARLISLE wrote, "Genius is the capacity for taking (' infinite pains.." .

THEODORE GEISEL'S manuscript had been rejected 23 times when ran into an old college friend who was the editor of Vanguard Press. Twenty minutes late a contract was signed and Geisel became the world's most successful author of Children's books. You probably know him better by his pen name: Dr. SEUSS ...

RICHARD HOOKER spent 17 years writing a humorous war story and was turned down by 21 publishers before William Marrow bought the book. You've seen the TV program based on Hooker's book titled MASH!

RICHARD BACH was rejected by 18 publishers. But he persisted and persuaded Macmillian Company to publish a short run of just 7,500 copies of his book. Today millions of copies have been sold all over the world you've seen it and perhaps even read his Jonathan Livingston Seagall. Together these three authors faced 62 rejections - but that did not deter them -- THEY PERSISTED --

How about the man who wanted to make the bible a living story for young children. He took drafts and manuscripts of his proposed ideas to every religious publisher in the country NOT ONE would publish for him. Determined and convinced that what he was doing was good he took all his assets and opened his own publishing company at great financial risk for himself and his family. Today friends, those first rejecters wish they had listened because the newly organized TYDALE HOUSE has published MILLIONS & MILLIONS of Ken Taylor's LIVING BIBLE.

RICKY HENDERSON the all-time base stealer in baseball history - stole 119 bases in 1982. But his name is also in the record book for being caught stealing more times than anyone else. The irony of this story to become the all-time base stealer. Henderson FAILED more times than anyone else. But what do we concentrate on the STOLEN bases or times FAILED?  Friends, its not how many' times you FAILED that COUNTS -- BUT HOW MANY TIMES YOU KEEP COMING BACK AND PERSISTING. SO PICK YOURSELF UP DUST YOURSELF OFF AND GIVE IT ANOTHER GO!!

Job 17:9.....the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger. NIV  "..will hold.." Means perseverance/persistence--if employed you will grow stronger and stronger. 

Gal 6:9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. NIV

Heb 12:1 ...since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. N IV

James 1 :12 Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, r=>. because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. NIV

Some real meat to chew on for all those who want to please God!

To be continued