Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit” – yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that apears for a little time and then vanishes.
This really struck me when I was reading the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan the other day. If I truly lived my life as if it were a mist, I would care for those around me more. I would give more. I wouldn’t care if I looked like a ‘Jesus Freak’ to those around me. I would give my all for God. The God of the universe made me. He wanted me to be his son by making his own Son a curse for me. “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written: Cursed is every one who hangs on a tree.” Galatians 3:13–14.
In the grand scheme of everything, my life is truely so small. There have been about 125,000,000,000 people that have lived on the world in total. I wanted to write out all of those zeros instead of writing a billion, because I think it gives a more drastic look on it. I am 1 of those 125,000,000,000.
First off, the love of the Father is so immense and it covers all. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) This crazy love of my Father is unthinkable. God didn’t have any reason that he needed to give his Son as a sacrifice for the world. He loves us. He loves me. Even though he already knew the many times that I would turn my back on him. The many times that I would readily ask for forgiveness and then slip up the next day. He loves me so much that he made his Son to be sin even though he did not sin, so that in him I might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
I should then give my all for a God who gave his all for me. If my life is just like a mist, then I shouldn’t waste my time with things that don’t give something to the kingdom. If I truly believe in what James 4:13-14 says, does everything I do bring glory to God. Or in other words, if I die right now would I be fine/happy with how I lived my life up to that point in time? Or would I be disgusted with myself, when I meet my Savior.
I am 1 of the 125,000,000,000 people who have, and are here on earth. I want to be known as a person different from everyone else. A person not floating down the current with everyone else. Rather a person who is charging up current and causing people to wonder what is different about me. I want to live for the one, who for my sake died and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
