Friday, March 22, 2013

Facing the future...

 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
(Luke 23:39-43 ESV)
In this encounter that only Luke records we have two men from the same background take two totally different paths toward the future.  One refuses tof ace it, while the other puts together his past and his present Company and realizes that only here, only now will he be able to make a change in direction.  God provides us all with those same moments in time, where we get a glimpse of our past and our future, and what is to be done now.  How we respond in those moments makes all the difference.

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