--Get a good education, find a good job and a career
--Marry a compatible life mate, then start a family
--Learn to save and invest prudently, prepare for times austere
--Then build up impressive accomplishments, professionally
As an adult, is this the familiar track you followed?
If so, then my Friends, welcome to where …it’s crowded!
If you were diligent, blessings upon you were bestowed.
And if you are like most, in pride you were shrouded.
If as a child, seeds of Christian faith in you were planted,
And if some of them took root, and began to sprout,
Then along the way, either signs of fruits likely budded,
Or in your life, secularism gained more clout.
While reviewing all your life’s impressive accomplishments,
You pause at length, time to reflect.
Pregnant reflections are the best blessing in retirement,
Often denied in lives shipwrecked. 1
As you review your life and peruse your résumé,
Then swell in satisfaction of key accomplishments,
Reflect on when to The Lord your life is reconveyed.
And in an obituary, your life is …condensed.
Standing before Him, it’s not your résumé, professional,
That in His court will be admissible.
He will call for, and review your résumé, spiritual.
Think: Are your résumés, comparable?
Professional résumés build-up companies and careers.
Spiritual résumés build-up His Kingdom on the Earth.
One starts with your education completed and contact peers,
The other starts with your re-birth experience, of great worth. 2
So take time to ponder, ‘How to Jesus, Who is The Lord,
Will my eternal résumé that matters to Him appear?’ 3
Will it be a blank page, zip, nada in Heaven’s record??
Or full of post-rebirth fruits that make Him smile from ear-to-ear??
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1 See: On ‘Retirity’ and ‘Eterniment’ (poem)
2 See: Prayer of Salvation (Poem) and Found: Route 7-7-7. Luke 9:60, Romans 6:11-13, Hebrews 6:1, 9:1, and especially Revelation 3:1 all indicate nothing is likely recorded or accrues on our spiritual résumé until we are (a) born again, by which we become ‘spiritually alive’ to God’, and (b) begin the process of renewing our soul (mind, will, emotions, intellect, imagination) to His Kingdom principles revealed in The Bible, The Word of God. Jesus emphatically said: ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water (amniotic fluid; physical birth) and the Spirit, he cannot enter The Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of The Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born again.’ (John 3:5-7) See: What Does John 3:5 Mean? Also listen to: Must Be, Gotta Be
3 Jesus is also God, One with Father God Who has delegated and given all things to Him alone. Take time to ponder the powerful insights in Is Jesus God? (Series). Jesus pre-incarnate told Job, ‘All things under Heaven are Mine.’ (Job 41:11) He also affirms this in Exodus 34:19, Leviticus 25:23, Psalms 50:10-11, Ezekiel 18:4, John 15:16 and 17:10, and Hebrews 1 - seven times, widely regarded as the ‘perfect’ number, or number of completion. Argue this point if you will, but the Biblical and historical evidence ...is overwhelming.
