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WHAT WILL YOU DO MONDAY?

Elder Louis Culver

What are the most important things that we consider as we plan for our week? Priorities are important. We must plan for our food consumption. We cannot be able to survive very long without food. It is necessary for us to plan for times of rest from the strenuous labors needed for our survival. We plan for rest and relaxation. It is desirable that we spend some good quality time with our family. Therefore, we plan for family activities.

There is always the possibility that our plans may need to be changed from time to time. Some unexpected situations may arise that necessitate our changing the well-planned and prearranged schedule. There must be some leeway in our planning or else we may find that we are unable to do some of the things that are expected of us.

When do you normally plan your week? Is it sometime during the previous week? Is it done as you go along during the week - having no particular plan at all? Surely you would not think of planning your week during the worship service on Sunday morning. Would you? It seems that some people find that very time convenient for them to plan - to think or daydrean - while the minister is preaching. After all, the preacher is supposed to know what he is talking about, therefore it is not necessary for the congregation to pay much - if any - attention to what he has to say.

It is not easy for anyone to remember the complete sermon, once the preacher has finished speaking. However, it is possible to remember more of the sermon than some people do, because they have not given their entire attention to listening.

When God chooses to speak through His ministers, it is very important that the congregation should listen. Without a doubt, when God speaks it is important. God has never spoken foolishly.

Do you remember the sermon topic the day you joined the church? Do you even remember the subject of the sermon last Sunday? Are there any sermons that stand out in your mind as being very special ones - sermons you would like to hear preached again and ones that you would recommend to your friends?

There is a number of activities that are necessary for our natural survival. There are several other activities that are necessary for our spiritual survival. Natural food nourishes our natural body just as spiritual food nourishes our spiritual body.

How often do we become so busily engaged in the worldly activities to the exclusion of the heavenly activities? It is just as necessary for us to exercise our spiritual minds as it is for us to exercise our natural bodies. Not to exercise either is to lose some degree of usefulness and functionality of each.

What will you do Monday? So often we hear people say (and we often say the same thing ourself) that "I will do thus and such Monday." In reality, we are not able to ascertain what we will do at any time in the future. We cannot know what we will be doing the next second. We are not promised the next minute, much less next week or next year. We read, "Today is the day of salvation."

What will you do Monday? The better question is: "What will you do Monday, if you knew that Jesus would return on Tuesday?" Now, this will give us something else to consider. Are we always ready for the second coming of Jesus Christ? We say that we are, but do we really mean it? Do we go places where we would not want to be found when Jesus comes? If we do, we should stop because the Lord will return at a time when we know not.

Are we doing things we would not like to be found doing when Jesus returns? If this is the case, then we should stop doing those things because Jesus may return when we are in the midst of doing them.

Are we guilty of saying things that we would not want to be saying when Jesus comes back to claim His own? Then we ought to change our conversation.

Do not go, do or say anything you would not want to be doing when Jesus comes.

With these thoughts in mind, WHAT WILL YOU DO MONDAY?