Live every day to the fullest!
How are you living your life. Just getting by in a gloomy stupor? Having no reason to get up in the morning? Hating your job and circumstances? Why? Do you have any idea who would love to be in your position? Yours may not be an ideal life, but it is life and you are the author of your own happiness. God has given all of us the tools we need to live our best life. The question is, are you using those tools?
I met a man who was dying of pancreatic cancer. He had been through every cure and option there is known to the medical and alternative cure world. Bottom line is, he is dying. Can’t be helped, other than a miracle. He decided to live every day of his life as if he has not been given a death sentence. He has two small children, and a wife who loves him very much. He decided to make their memories of him happy ones. Therefore, he will not allow himself to feel sorry for himself, or bring gloom and doom into his family’s lives. He made a list of all the things he wanted to do and dreamed about when he was a kid. Nothing is going to stand in his way of trying to accomplish the things on that list.
Every one of us have been given a death sentence. Unlike this man we just weren’t given a final time period. But for us it could be today or tomorrow. The Bible says: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: In other words, none of us are getting out of here alive, but don’t act like you are dead before the fact. Every day is a gift. What you do with that gift is up to you! If you wanted to write a book, start writing. You may not finish, but you will be a lot closer than the day before yesterday! Do you want to paint, draw? Do it! It doesn’t have to hang in the Louvre to bring you joy and happiness. Sketch, take photographs, do what ever you have aspired to do. “I don’t have the strength,” okay, find someone who will help you do it, or take you where you need to go to accomplish what you need to do. Have someone carry you out into the sunshine, or by a window, enjoy each and every breath you take in this life. Be a blessing to others. Write letters, make phone calls, visit, bake cookies, but do something positive! Write your memories, experiences, your greatest love, and about your faith. I am not talking to people who have been given a prognosis of disappointing news, but to every person who is drawing breath right now! Live! Praise God for all the blessings in your life! Do you have a roof over your head? Praise God! Do you have food? Praise God! People around you that love you? Thank and Praise God! Life is a gift, use it up to it’s fullest!
As parents we need to teach our children to thank God on a daily basis for family, friends, and the opportunities life gives them. Keep them in God’s Word, and help them reach any and all dreams they have in this world. Never tell them that they can never do it, just teach them to try. And to thank God for the opportunities that their life affords them. The greatest of these opportunities is eternal life. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved! Romans 10:13
We as writers give great hope and comfort to our characters who face challenges, whether life and death decisions or any other trails they face. How about we do the same in our own lives!
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.
Psalms 139:16
The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. So teach [us] to number our days, that we may apply [our] hearts unto wisdom.
Psalms 90:10&12
Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:5
Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
James 4:14
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:3
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:1-39
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
John 10:28