Gods words with Music

We live in tomorrow is whatever we build today.

That's exactly what the Bible says in that famous statement=20
in Galatians 6:7, "Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. =20
A man reaps what he sows." =20

So, what you're planting today, you'll be eating in the future ... what=20
you're building today, you'll be living in later on. =20
In a very real way, the life you're living right now -=20
the things you love and the things you hate -=20
it's the harvest of the choices you made months ago or years ago -=20
except you may not have realized at the time=20
you were making your choices. That's why it's so=20
important to realize it now -=20
about the choices you're making at this point=20
in your life!

What you do with or to your body now you'll be living with down the=20
road. The way you treat your parents ... the way you treat your =
children=20
... the way you treat the other people in your personal world -=20
you'll be living with that in your relationships for a long time to =
come. =20
You'll reap the sacrifices you're making, the appreciation you're =
expressing,=20
the generosity you're showing. You'll also reap the criticism you give, =
the=20
sarcasm, the meanness, the harshness, the neglect. =20
They will come back to you.

The way you talk to people, the way you talk about people - I hope =
it's=20
something you'll want to live with in the years to come. Your words are =

seed you sow, and later you'll be living with the harvest of those words =
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a beautiful harvest or a bitter harvest. And one thing we're all =
building,=20
for better or worse, is a reputation. You are developing, right now, a=20
reputation for trustworthiness or unreliability ... for honesty or=20
deceitfulness ... for moral purity or moral laxity ... for consistency =
or=20
inconsistency. And much of what you get in the future will be the =
harvest=20
of the kind of reputation that you're building today. =20
You really do reap what you sow.

So don't compromise just to get out of a jam ... or to get a quick =
fix=20
... or to cover up something ... or to meet a need today in a way that =
you're=20
going to regret tomorrow. Draw out the lines of the choices you're=20
making. Where's this going to take me? Am I going to end up where I =
want=20
to end up? I'll be meeting what I'm sowing today later on. =20

Live openly,=20
live honestly,=20
live gently.

Someday you will be living in what you're building today. =20
Build something that will last, and build something=20
you'll want to live in for a long time.

Whatever our hands touch-
We leave fingerprints!
On walls, on furniture
On doorknobs, dishes, books.
There's no escape.
As we touch we leave our identity.=20

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Oh God, wherever I go today
Help me leave heartprints!
Heartprints of compassion
Of understanding and love.
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Heartprints of kindness
And genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lonely neighbor
Or a runaway daughter
Or an anxious mother
Or perhaps an aged grandfather.

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Lord, send me out today
To leave heartprints.
And if someone should say,
"I felt your touch,"
May that one sense YOUR LOVE
Touching through ME.=20