Live It Up
"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." - John 10:10
Everyone says they want to live life to the fullest. A lot of people say they are doing it. But for so many people this consists of things such as partying, drinking, drugs, sex, and other things of this world. That lifestyle is all empty! Although I was never a part of that lifestyle, I've seen it all too much. The value you put into things like that is a waste. It gets you nowhere. Sure, you can enjoy it for the time but it's all temporary. Things of this world are temporary. You can be the biggest baller but "what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?" (Matthew 16:26) Of course, people say that you only live one life so you might as well enjoy it as much as you can. However, as I heard Pastor Barry of Community Bible Church say, we are not human beings living a temporary spiritual experience but spiritual beings living a temporary human experience. We're made to live forever! "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Think about it. The time span of our lives here on earth are nothing compared to eternity. "What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes" (James 4:14). Why settle for trash for a short time when you can have treasure for eternity? It's up to us to choose whether we want to spend eternity with God or away from Him. I would make sure it's the first one and have nothing to do with the second. All you have to do is accept and trust Jesus. He'll take care of the rest. Jesus said He came to give life to the fullest and I truly believe this. I've experienced it. The joy and satisfaction He has given me is just amazing. What God has to offer is unlike anything else. I think so many things on this earth are pretty cool and I'm sure we all do. But I can't even imagine what Heaven is going to be like! "'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him'" (1 Corinthians 2:9). What he has is so much better! I'm not sure what my life would be like without God. But I know for a fact it would not be as good as it is with Him. C.S. Lewis said "We're half-hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." Ecclesiastes talks about how without God, everything is meaningless. Life with God, the infinite treasure, is life to the fullest. Some people think I'm crazy when I say I won't mind dying. They don't understand. Jesus has my heart so I know I'll be living forever with God. That's when it all begins. Welcome to the good life.
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