TWO WORDS TO MY YOUNGER SELF

If you could write a note to your younger self, what would you say, in only two words?

I started out thinking," Do what you intend to do.", because I remember intending to do so many things that would have made my life so different, so much better, but that breaks the two word rule. If I don't put it like that I (my self of the past) would probably not understand the context and either dismiss it as a hoax or as inconsequential, anyway. Maybe I could shorten it to, "Do intended" or something like that, but I don't know that I (my earlier self) would understand it until I'm 60 or so, when some thoughtful person asks the question and I'm writing a response to a Facebook post or something.

Maybe it would be better to just leave myself something like the Bible reference, Matt. 6: 33, which says, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you."

I believe the Lord has given this verse to me to use as my "life verse". To understand this verse in context, you really have to take the previous 10 verses into consideration. They're talking about food, clothing, shelter, and life, both physical and spiritual. The Bible, the Word of God, is our spiritual Food, so that even if we don't have physical food here on earth, even if we are starved to death, He is the Bread of Life, His Word is Water, Milk, Honey, Bread, Meat. We are to hide His Word in our hearts, and He says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."

When we accept Christ as our own personal Saviour and only hope of heaven, turn from our sin and ask Christ to forgive us of our sin, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell (that's long term, for ever) within us and says, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." At that moment He clothes us in His own righteousness and makes of it, a robe of His righteousness for us.

From that point on we have a home in heaven, now and when our time on earth is done, so that we need not fear at all. Of course we must , and should  continue in His Word and His Will, but even if all we have is a stone for a pillow and leaves for a blanket, Heaven is our final destination, our Home.

Besides all that, when our life here is done and we do get to go home; whether it be tomorrow, by famine or flood, exposure to the elements, or man's inhumanity to man; or if we should continue and prosper until His Appearing, we will be with Him eternally, and that is Life indeed, both now and for ever, for eternity.

That, in a nutshell, is what Matt. 6: 33 has come to mean to me.


Bruce Dobson
Matt. 6: 33