A CHAT WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE

Have you ever come to a point in your life?
That you are so confuse real in a confuse state
Of what life should be and to what direction should it go
As you life out life and move on with it everyday
And you feel sometimes confuse not too sure

Sometimes life throws at us hard questions
A soul searching one that got us on our toe
With deep reflection and thoughtfulness of who we are
And we seek for answers far and near
A chat with your conscience

We feel that we are not really truly doing the right thing
Still within the right frame of mind and thought
Not wanting to wonder away from the track
But to be within what we want and what God wants too
A chat with your conscience

Not too sure of what you are doing
Whether is really right not wanting to do the wrong thing
But several times the conscience comes in to speak
We feel sometimes is not really right but feelings of wrong
A chat with your conscience

Beclouded our existence
As we wonder away in our own world
Filled with thoughts and looking restrain from others
Locked up inside our own world is us against our world
And the heart searching questions continues
A chat with your conscience

And its voice keeps increasing
Day after day as night falls into dusk it become so loud
From the subtle gentle voice it is becoming so loud and hard
But in a still small voice biting hard on crescendo
A chat with your conscience

They are many out there
Who are so in a state of dilemma
Confuse just following where life takes them
Even when surrounded with the ills and un-mannerism of the society
A chat with the conscience to keep the conscience spot white

ONE OUT OF TEN

Graham, Templeton and Clifford
In Christian life it’s not how you start that matters
It’s how you finish
One out of ten

Billy Graham came storming out of seemingly nowhere
To fill auditorium across America
Speaking to as many as thirty thousand people a night
Graham was hired as the first full time evangelist
For Youth for Christ and his reputation is a uniquely gifted
Preacher roared across America like a prairie fire
The rest of course is history

You’ve heard of Billy Graham
But what about Chuck Templeton
Or Bron Clifford, have you ever heard of them?
Billy Graham wasn’t only young preacher in 1945
Chuck Templeton and Bron Clifford were accomplishing
The same thing and more all three young men were in their midtwenties

One seminary president after hearing Chuck Templeton preach
One evening to an audience of thousand called him
The most gifted and talented young man in America today for preaching
Templeton and Graham were friends both ministered for Youth for Christ
Both were extraordinary preachers yet in those early years
Most observers would probably have put their money on Templeton

Bron Clifford was yet another gifted twenty five year old fireball
In 1945 many believe Clifford the most gifted and powerful preacher
The church had seen in centuries…Graham, Templeton and Clifford
All three came shooting out of the starting blocks like rockets
You’ve heard of Billy Graham so how come you’ve never heard
Of Chuck Templeton or Bron Clifford? Especially when they came out in ‘45

Just five years later
Templeton left the ministry to pursue a career
As a radio and television commentator and news paper columnist
He had decided he was no longer a believer in Christ
In the orthodox sense of the term

What about Clifford? By 1954 Clifford has lost
His family his ministry and his health…and then his life
Alcohol and financial irresponsibility had done him in
He wound up leaving his wife and their two Down’s syndrome children
At just thirty five years of age, this once great preacher died from
Cirrhosis of the liver in a run-down motel on the edge of Amarillo
His last job was selling used cars in the panhandle of Texas
He died as John Haggai put it “unwept, unhonored and unsung”

In 1945 three young men with extraordinary gifts
Were preaching the gospel to multiplied thousands
Across this nation within ten years only one of them was still on track for Christ
In Christian life it’s not how you start that matters it’s how you finish
One out of ten

For those of us in the ministry or about to go into ministry
Stay true to Jesus make sure that you keep your heart close to Jesus everyday
It’s a long way from here to where you’re going to
And satan in no hurry to get you over the years is been observe
That just one out of ten who start out in full time service for the Lord
At twenty one or sixty five

They’re shot down morally
They’re shot down with discouragement
They’re shot down with liberal theology
They get obsessed with making money
But for one reason or another nine out of ten fall out
In Christian life it’s not how you start that matters
It’s how you finish

If Tomorrow…

Just one day at a time

Life flows some high from there you are to here

If tomorrow never comes and life starts flitting away

Right in front of your own every eyes

What seems working stops working

As the last scene of your life flashes at you

You look back at the blink of an eye is gone

Gone to never return again everything has fallen out of its place

Every turn you turn come a break down

If tomorrow

…Never comes and life is gone

Of what success story will you stand to talk about?

When history calls out on you

Tomorrow is yet a journey you must take

Today is the best moment to prepare for tomorrow

If tomorrow

Cease to exist and it fades out of existence

You cannot cease hold of tomorrow again

Tomorrow is yet a promissory note to write on

Is either you face off with today to get prepared for tomorrow

Your strength today in facing adversity

Determine how you will whether off the challenges of tomorrow

Because life is not a bed of roses bridge the gap of today towards tomorrow

Live and work in today investing for the reward of tomorrow

If tomorrow

If tomorrow never comes

And the sun refuses to shine

Rain droplet refuses to drop

And everything fading out

From dusk to dawn you walk the work

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