[Biblemat] A) GOING SOMEWHERE?

[J5827Sasser at wmconnect.com]

Brethren and Friends, Jim Sasser here.  A very good Friday morn-
ing to each and everyone.  May God bless you and yours.  Here is
an article from my recent files:

GOING SOMEWHERE?

     The Beatles sang:  "He's a real nowhere man; Sitting in his
nowhere land; Making all his nowhere plans For nobody.

"Doesn't have a point of view; Knows not where he's going
to; Isn't he a bit like You and Me?"

     Is he a bit like you and me?  I hope not.  Sadly, all too often, this is 
just like me -- wandering through life without
real plans, just taking the days as they come, reacting but
never preparing.

     Most of us want to end up somewhere, but never really
define where that somewhere is.  This is reminiscent of Alice's encounter 
with the Cheshire Cat.  He pointed out if
she didn't care where she went, it didn't matter which direct-
ion she took.  She explained she wanted to get somewhere.
To which the cat responded she was sure to get somewhere
as long as she kept walking long enough.

     When we travel like that, we end up somewhere only to 
find out we don't want to be there.

     No doubt, we could talk about life goals with our family or
career.  More importantly we need to think about eternity.

     We pretty well know where we want to go, but do we know
where we are going?  Are we making plans to get us there?
Do we have convictions to lead us down the paths of righteo-
usness?  Or are we sitting in our nowhere land, without points of view, 
making nowhere plans for nobody?

     Whenever I read about Lazarus and the rich man in Lk. 16:
19-31, I can't help but think about their lives.  The rich man
apparently made lots of plans to make money.  Lazarus hadn't done that.  The 
rich man had probably made lots of
plans to be upwardly mobile.  Lazarus hadn't done that.

     However, Lazarus had clearly made spiritual plans.  Though he was a 
beggar, he had obviously thought about
eternity and how to get where he wanted to go.  He wanted
paradise.  He wanted heaven.  By God's grace, he made it.

     Do you think the rich man made plans to go to torment?
Had he laid out a course and faithfully walked it in order to go
to hell?  Of course not.  Rather, he didn't plan for heaven.
Spiritually, he was a nowhere man, making nowhere plans.
He did, however, end up somewhere.  Once he go there, it 
was too late to make better plans.

     We are going somewhere.  Where are you planning to go
for eternity?  If you are not planning, let me assure you, you
will end up somewhere.  Then it will be too late to do anything
about it.  Don't be a nowhere man; be going somewhere.  (I
hope that somewhere is heaven, JWS).  ---- Edwin L. Crozier
via Gospel Power, Vol. 14, No. 11, Mar. 18, 2007.   </HTML>
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