Live… We want to live…not the alternative. We have expectations about it’s duration….We have a place to live….
What is it to really ‘live’? Is it to just exist?…breathe and have a heart beat?
Is it to push the limits, be adventurous, even rebelling against what is expected or right? Have a ‘good time’?
I’m reminded of that thing about what’s between the dash. You remember…that dash that connects your date of birth and date of death on your tombstone….
I need to think about that dash today, because I’m in it.
But the question is, what am I living for? Am I living simply because I haven’t died yet?
Am I living to work and spend? Or living to work so I can save and count it? Am I living for the next thrill? The next fix of my own brand of addiction?
Sigh…
Thank You Lord that I have died already.
“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24)
And thank You even more that I live. Jesus died so ‘that I might die to sins….and LIVE for righteousness…’ (same passage, personalized by me)
I have ceased to exist as far as sin is concerned. My existence is for the righteousness. “Since Jesus went through everything I’m going through and more, I must learn to think like Him. Think of my sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get my own way. Then I’ll be able to live out my days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what I want.” (1 Peter 4:1,2 The Message, personalized by me)
Thank You Jesus !!
