Sermon – Part One: What Punctuation Mark Describes Your Life?
There is a gap between our first and last breath. In between those breaths is a punctuation mark. These punctuation marks in our lives can be a comma, exclamation point, question mark, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, and definitely the almighty period.
None of us is a mistake. God doesn’t make mistakes.
In Genesis 3: 4-6, it says:
4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! 5 For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.” 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband [c]with her, and he ate.
This is the first recorded decision that man and woman made.
In an airplane, there is a black box. With humans, the black box is our soul, our spirit that God placed in us.
John 3: 6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
We all have punctuation marks in our lives.
Are you a COMMA, a mark indicating a separation from life, not doing what God placed you here to do?
Or are you an EXCLAMATION POINT? Do you express excitement about what God is doing in your life?
Perhaps you are a QUESTION MARK. You have doubts, uncertainties, and difficulties that have shaken your confidence.
Or, maybe you’re an APOSTROPHE. Have you turned away from life, taking the path of not being present? In doing so, you show your omission from God and the life He has given you.
If you are a COLON, are you part of a group that set good examples in life or are you a series of things that have no meaning? Are you quoting the good or the bad?
Or, are you the SEMI-COLON – that mark of punctuation denoting a degree of separation greater than that marked by the comma but less than that marked by the period?
No matter who you are, the end – completion – is marked by a PERIOD. This is our death.
What punctuation mark will come before the PERIOD in your life?
Read the Full Chapter of the Scriptures Referenced:
Read Other Sermons by The Gospel Mailman:
The One That Is Lost
Jesus Came to Save the Lost (Part One)
Be Willing to Accept Jesus Into Your Heart (Part Two)
God Can Hear Your Cry and Save You (Part Three)
Return Thursday for the conclusion of the sermon, What Punctuation Mark Describes Your Life?