How you spend this is more important than how you spend
your money. What is it?
I'll explain on today's edition of Liberty at Home.
Hello, friends. Welcome to our latest episode of
Liberty at Home, the weekly devotional series brought to you
by the Liberty Baptist Church, a congregation that was started
here in Easton 12 years ago. I'm your host, Adam Rivera, and
I've been the pastor of Liberty all the way back since we met at
Parkview School back in 2013 and make Parkview School rest in
peace. Today, as always, we're
broadcasting for me Cat Studios in beautiful Easton, MA, home of
four Duncans, three Starbucks and Aroma Joe's and the Beanery,
all for 25,000 people. And with all that caffeine, no
wonder everyone's on edge around here.
On this episode, we're going to continue our chapter by chapter
study of the book of Proverbs by stopping in chapter 27.
And I'll admit we've got several places that would be easy for us
to study and talk about for a while.
But I can't get past the first verse, so read it along with me.
If you have your Bible and Proverbs 27 verse one says boast
not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth. How we spend our money is one of
the most important issues of life.
Having a budget and living within your means are all, well,
part of being an adult, right? That doesn't mean that we always
do it well, but I would dare say that the issue of how we spend
our money is never far from our mind, and with good reason.
Right? But remember during the intro I
mentioned that how you spend this is more important than how
you spend your money. What on earth could I possibly
be talking about? Well, according to the verse we
just read, how we spend our time is more important than how we
spend your money. Why?
Well, think about time as a currency for a moment, and
perhaps you'll understand better.
Our verse tells us to boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou
knowest not what a day may bring forth.
When it comes to your life. The only currency you can spend
is today. Yesterday has already been
spent, and tomorrow hasn't been placed into your account yet,
and we have no guarantee that it will be.
Yes friend, King Solomon is begging us to make today count.
It was Ben Franklin who said don't put off until tomorrow
what you can do today. So what's the best thing you can
do with today you may ask? Well, I'd argue that the best
thing you can do with today is to call upon Jesus Christ to
save you. Second Corinthians chapter 6
verse 2 says behold, now is the accepted time.
Behold, now is the day of salvation.
The Apostle Paul says that when it comes the issues of salvation
and your eternity, don't wait until tomorrow for what should
be done today. James put it this way in his
epistle and James chapter 4 verses 13 and 14 go to now.
You either say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and
continue their year and buy and sell and get gain, whereas you
know not what shall be on the Morrow.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor that
appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.
Friend, the Bible is clear. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. This sin has a cost according to
the scriptures and that's death and hell.
But thanks be to God, that cost has already been paid by Jesus
Christ. Which is why Romans chapter 5
verse 8 says, But God commendeth his love toward us in that while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The next chapter further continues that the wages of sin
is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
Christ our Lord. Then in chapter 10 of Romans,
Paul sums up what you must do by saying in verses 9 and 10 that
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation. Do not wait tomorrow.
It's a currency you can't spend today, and to be honest, you may
never get to spend it. I urge you to call upon Jesus
and Jesus alone to save you today.
I promise you, it will make today the best day you've ever
spent. As we draw to a close for this
week's episode of Liberty at Home, I want to remind you that
we'd love to have you visit us at one of our services at 800
Washington St. here in Easton. You can join us at 10 AM, 11 AM
or 5:00 PM on Sundays, and we also meet at 7:00 PM on
Wednesdays. To learn more, visit us on
social media, watch a service on YouTube or visit us at
mylibertybaptist.org. Speaking of time, time's up for
today. So I'll leave you by reminding
you that we're the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
This is Pastor Adam Rivero signing off.
Until next time, on liberty at home.