January 10, 2005

[Rev. Doc]

God Expects One Hundred Percent

"If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."
Romans 14:8

Many don't want to give God all aspects of their lives. However, God wants everything, 100% of all we are. But what if we won't give Him all? What if we only gave Him 99.9%? How could this be seen in other areas of life? If 99.9% is good enough then:

* 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
* 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped per year
* 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled per hour
* 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
* 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers
* Two planes landing at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day
* 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled
* 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year
* 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips
* 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
* 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat
* 3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections
* A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds)

We expect 100% in all areas, shouldn't God expect the same thing from us? Or is 99.9% enough?

Prayer: Ask God to take control of every part of your life.

"A wife who is 85% faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ."
~Vance Havner.