Spiritually Ready for Y2K?
The Millennium
John Piper
Monday, November 1, 1999
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Key Bible Verse:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us
(Romans 8:35-37). Bonus Reading: 1 John 3:16-18
The greatest need on January 1, 2000, will not be basements stocked with food, water and generators, but hearts stocked with the Word of God. You will be life-giving not by seeking the very things the world seeks, but by delighting in God's Word. His Word fits us to say, "In all these things we are more than conquerors."
Nothing is going to happen on January 1, 2000, as bad as what is already happening to persecuted and starving Christians in Sudan. Or to the orphans in AIDS-devastated countries of Africa. Or to lonely, dying old people in care centers who have outlived their families.
Something smells of hypocrisy in talk about stockpiling supplies in our homes to "minister" to others in the coming Y2K crisis when there are places to minister this very day many within your reach that are worse crises than anything that is going to happen then.
Delight yourself in the Word of God, meditate on it day and night. Go minister to the lost, hungry and thirsty. Then you won't even notice when Y2K happens.
John Piper, pastor Bethlehem Baptist Church
Personal Challenge:
How can you better give of your resources to help others?
Thought to Apply:
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve mankind.
Woodrow Wilson (28TH U.S. PRESIDENT)
Credits: Adapted from--Friday: Desiring God Ministries (1/99 sermon)
1999 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity. For reprint information call 630-260-6200 or e-mail mail@menofintegrity.net.
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