Life (5/6)

For to you a thousand years are like a yesterday that has… Psalm 90:4

For to you a thousand years
are like a yesterday that has passed
or one of the watches of the night.
Psalm 90:4 God understanding
As for me, I do not regard my life as of any value, only that I finish the race and complete the mission that I received from the Lord Jesus—to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.
Acts 20:24 grace evangelism work

Go forth, then. Eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God long ago approved what you do.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 joy food heart
Produce good fruit as proof of your repentance.
Matthew 3:8 conversion repentance fruitfulness
While physical training has some value, the benefits of godliness are unlimited, since it holds out promise not only for this life but also for the life to come.
1 Timothy 4:8 health obedience body
What then shall we say? Should we persist in sin in order that grace may abound? Of course not! We have died to sin. How can we live in it any longer?
Romans 6:1-2 sin grace
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so whoever feeds upon me will live because of me.
John 6:57 Father Jesus food
For you are aware that you were ransomed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
1 Peter 1:18-19 Savior Jesus blood
Once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
Ephesians 5:8 light children
This is the conclusion I have reached: it is fitting for a man to eat and drink and find satisfaction in the results of his labors under the sun during the brief span of life that God has allotted him.
Ecclesiastes 5:17 food work receiving
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the sake of the gospel will save it.
Mark 8:35 evangelism salvation
As servants of God, behave as free people, but do not use your freedom as a means to cover up wrongdoing.
1 Peter 2:16 freedom evil serving
You shall obey his statutes and the commandments that I give you today, so that all may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the Lord, your God, has given you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:40 law obedience blessing
Indeed, persecution will afflict all who want to lead a godly life in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12 persecution Jesus
Let the wicked abandon their ways
and those who are evil their thoughts.
Let them return to the Lord
so that he may have mercy upon them;
and to our God,
for he is rich in forgiveness.
Isaiah 55:7 righteousness conversion forgiveness
And God said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the wild animals and reptiles that crawl upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 creation God
And God said, “Behold, I give you every plant that produces seeds upon the earth and every tree that has fruit with its seed inside of it: these shall be your food.”
Genesis 1:29 food fruitfulness
Consider the ravens. They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn, and yet God feeds them. You are of far greater importance than birds.
Luke 12:24 food worrying valuable
He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 8:3 suffering Word of God food
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have life.
Psalm 104:33 singing worship
Do not lie to one another, since you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Colossians 3:9-10 lying conversion transformation
The Lord God said, “Behold, man has become like one of us, for he has knowledge of that which is good and that which is evil. Now, we must prevent him from reaching out and taking the fruit of the tree of life lest he eat it and live forever.” The Lord God cast him out of the Garden of Eden; henceforth he was to labor tilling the soil from which he had come.
Genesis 3:22-23 eternal life sin goodness
Let us examine and test our ways
and return to the Lord.
Lamentations 3:40 conversion repentance
However, whoever lives by the truth
comes to the light
so that it may be clearly seen
that his deeds have been done in God.
John 3:21 light truth obedience
Those who live according to the flesh fix their attention on the things of the flesh, while those who live according to the Spirit set their thoughts on spiritual things.
Romans 8:5 body Spirit dependence

Do I derive any pleasure from the death of the wicked? asks the Lord God. Would I not rather rejoice to see them turn away from their wickedness and live?