"You do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that appears from a little while
and then vanishes away."
James 4:14 (NASB)
We've all heard the saying "yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why they call it the present." Let's face it none of us deserve to live another day, or even take another breath. Even more technically we measly human beings deserve hell, and contrary to popular belief this present life is not hell. The things we go through in our days are nothing compared to eternity and nothing close to what Christ went through in his days on earth. We are so blessed to wake up in America everyday.
I think we are all to often reminded that life is short. Our worlds are rocked when someone we loved "dies young". Instead of taken everyday as our last, we expect many more days in our future. We do not know what the future holds, so why should we bank on having more than what we've been giving?!? Everyday we are granted the grace to wake up and glorify God, we should live life to the fullest.
My challenge to myself, this month especially, is to live each day. I mean truly live. Live with no reserves. Glorifying my heavenly father with everything I do. Loving to my greatest capacity and laughing (alot!!). And even in this vapor we call life I want to enjoy ever second while I wait for the Lord, clinging to the verse "to be absent form the body is to be present with the Lord." (2 Cor 5:8). Death for the Christian is not so much an exit out of life as it is an entry into the Lord's presence in a very personal sense. So either way I get to experience the best for my life.
You are just a vapor that appears from a little while
and then vanishes away."
James 4:14 (NASB)
We've all heard the saying "yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why they call it the present." Let's face it none of us deserve to live another day, or even take another breath. Even more technically we measly human beings deserve hell, and contrary to popular belief this present life is not hell. The things we go through in our days are nothing compared to eternity and nothing close to what Christ went through in his days on earth. We are so blessed to wake up in America everyday.
I think we are all to often reminded that life is short. Our worlds are rocked when someone we loved "dies young". Instead of taken everyday as our last, we expect many more days in our future. We do not know what the future holds, so why should we bank on having more than what we've been giving?!? Everyday we are granted the grace to wake up and glorify God, we should live life to the fullest.
My challenge to myself, this month especially, is to live each day. I mean truly live. Live with no reserves. Glorifying my heavenly father with everything I do. Loving to my greatest capacity and laughing (alot!!). And even in this vapor we call life I want to enjoy ever second while I wait for the Lord, clinging to the verse "to be absent form the body is to be present with the Lord." (2 Cor 5:8). Death for the Christian is not so much an exit out of life as it is an entry into the Lord's presence in a very personal sense. So either way I get to experience the best for my life.
~live.laugh.love~
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