The Monday Memo » Repentance http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog by Steve May Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:53:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hebrews 3:13 — Ground Hog Day http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/2009/02/hebrews-313-%e2%80%94-ground-hog-day/ http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/2009/02/hebrews-313-%e2%80%94-ground-hog-day/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:32:38 +0000 Steve May http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/?p=36 Ground Hog DayIn the movie Ground Hog Day, Bill Murray plays a self-absorbed, cynical weatherman who gets stuck with going to Puxatawnie Pennsylvania on February 2 for the big Ground Hog Day celebration, a task he dreads. Worst of all, he wakes up the next day only to find that it’s not the next day — it’s February 2 again. He has to relive the day again and again and again.

Eventually he gets the day perfect:  he saves a homeless man from freezing, he saves another man from choking in a restaurant, he catches a little boy who falls out of a tree, he changes a flat for some elderly women, and so on. In other words, he spends the day serving people.

Today is Ground Hog Day, and I’m guessing that all of us will only get one shot at it — just like we get just one shot at every other day. We have one chance to get today right; let’s make the most of this opportunity. Let’s spend the day serving others.

As the writer of Hebrews said, “Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.” (Hebrews 3:13)

]]> http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/2009/02/hebrews-313-%e2%80%94-ground-hog-day/feed/ 0 Change Your Course — Deuteronomy 30:19-20 http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/2009/01/change-your-course-%e2%80%94-deuteronomy-3019-20/ http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/2009/01/change-your-course-%e2%80%94-deuteronomy-3019-20/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:24:33 +0000 Steve May http://www.mondaymemo.com/blog/?p=33 Change Your CourseAs a ship approached the coast of New England, a heavy fog set in. The ship’s radar detected what appeared to be another vessel in its path, so the captain sent the following message: “Change your course 10 degrees port.”

Shortly they received a reply: “Change YOUR course 10 degree starboard.”

The captain became annoyed and said: “I am a Lt. Commander of the U.S. Navy. Change your course.”

This was the response: “I am a seaman 3rd class. Change your course.”

By now the captain was furious. His message read: “This is a battleship! Change your course.”

Moments later a message came across the wire that said: “This is a Lighthouse! Change Your Course!”

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There are certain laws at work in the universe, and no amount of power, or money, or influence can change them.

These laws are God’s laws. He designed them to work for us, not against us. In order for this to happen, we sometimes have to change our course. His laws don’t change; we must change.

When we try to find happiness, fulfillment, and meaning in life through any method other than a personal relationship with God, we are setting ourselves up for failure.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. We can change our course at anytime. We can choose life over death; we can choose spiritual blessings over self-destruction.

God doesn’t change his course to accommodate us, but if we are willing to change our course, to chart the path of lives in his direction, he will to open his arms wide to receive us, and will shower us with blessings from heaven. These are his words…

“I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live, and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life…” (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

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